Definition of "evil eye" []

• A look or stare believed to cause injury or misfortune to others. (noun)
• The presumed power to cause injury or misfortune to others by magic or supernatural means. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Having an evil eye cleansed at the same time as I executive-produced a reality show—that must have a place in the Guinness Book of Workaholic Records."
• "What she did not see with an evil eye she looked upon with one of ridicule, and her friend Margency was not excepted."
• "For such a prince to come into even the empty name of power was to become subject to the evil eye of his fraternal lord and rival, for whose favor officious friends and superserviceable lackeys contended in scandalous and treacherous spyings of the Second King's every action."