Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an evil manner; not well.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete In an evil manner; not well; ill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in an
evil manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a wicked evil manner
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Examples
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I wheeled around, sure that at that very moment the old man was regarding me evilly from the doorway, but he hadn't yet reached the door.
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Instead, I will point you all to Sesame Street Fighter, and grin evilly.
NOT whining about missing Wiscon shweta_narayan 2010
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Presuming all the climate scientists are evilly plotting against you, why would they do this?
Matthew Yglesias » January Was the Warmest Temperature in World History 2010
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Overslept, brain's mushy, both keyboards seem like they're grinning evilly at me, must stim and get stuff done.
Tweets I have known 2009
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Rather than kill all my free time tonight, I shall share the link with my friends. * laughs evilly*
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This, my friends, made me laugh. Hard. 2009
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It was gratifying, really, at how many evilly grinning faces swung around at that opening.
p_n_elrod: Da Winnah and new stuff p_n_elrod 2010
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I can easily imagine Scalzi sitting on high and laughing evilly, just not down at us.
GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap 2009
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Rather did they tolerate him in a broad human way, as one tolerates any creature evilly treated in the making.
The Mad God 2010
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In the moonlight a pistol glinted evilly in his hand.
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Hundreds of devoted followers saw to it that the evilly disposed were rolled in the snow and hustled off to bed.
Chapter XIII 2010
mollusque commented on the word evilly
Whose nose lurks evilly in the hearts of men? The Shadow's nose.
--Josh Shaine
December 1, 2007