Sentence examples for evilness from high-quality English sources.

• Peter could sense hatred, anger, “the worst possible evilness,” and he could see upraised hands.

• The “because” in this statement does not express a causal link; instead, it tells us what grounds the evilness of the act.

• This supremely wacky and world-historically daft sci-fi extravaganza is just what you need to cheer you up, featuring as it does an outrageous scene-stealing turn from Eddie Redmayne, playing the scheming space-lord Balem, an epicene pharaoh of intergalactic evilness.

• We like to show off for each other,” a sinister character says, and his evilness does not detract from the fact that he is speaking the truth.

• The goodness or evilness of a sensible creature, according to Shaftesbury, is based on the creature’s motives, and not simply on the results of the creature’s actions (C 2.21–22).

• The siblings are troubled by their criminal father, by his alcoholic wife, and by a school bully, whose one-dimensional evilness provides the book’s first inkling of the supernatural.