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Definition of "evildoer" [e•vil•do•er]

  • One that performs evil acts. (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.

Use "evildoer" in a sentence
  • "Again and again, administration officials have insisted that some particular evildoer is causing all our problems."
  • "He ... angry -- literally, "short of anger" (compare Pr 14: 29, opposite idea). man ... hated -- that is, the deliberate evildoer is more hated than the rash."
  • "One of the main differences from September 11th and today is that back then I knew that the evildoer was a crazy person in a cave outside the country."