English Dictionary

evil

/ˈiːvɪl/

adj

Intending to harm; malevolent. / Morally corrupt. / Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.). / Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

He had an evil smile on his face.

意味（1）

Intending to harm; malevolent.

an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people

意味（2）

Morally corrupt.

If something is evil, it is never mandatory.

意味（3）

Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]

意味（4）

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign;

意味（5）

(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop

意味（6）

(computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.

Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.