1
as in criminal
a person who commits moral wrongs
if good people stand by and do nothing, evildoers will triumph
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as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
Iago from Shakespeare's Othello became one of the most notorious evildoers in all of literature
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Recent Examples of evildoer
That’s the name for the AI-successor to JARVIS, the super intelligence Iron Man once used to face off against evildoers like Thanos.
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Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Entity is too abstract to qualify as a world-class evildoer.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
Alternatively, maybe evildoer humans have done this in conjunction with AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Not wanting to seem gloomy, sorry, yet another qualm is that AGI might be kept or placed under control by governments, tech firms, or possibly even evildoers.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Entity is too abstract to qualify as a world-class evildoer.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
Alternatively, maybe evildoer humans have done this in conjunction with AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Not wanting to seem gloomy, sorry, yet another qualm is that AGI might be kept or placed under control by governments, tech firms, or possibly even evildoers.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evildoer
Noun
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Betty Ann Tomlinson, 50, was charged Thursday afternoon with arson, conspiracy to commit arson and assisting a criminal.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025
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The thriller follows a professional criminal who, after surviving an assassination attempt, embarks on a relentless quest to identify his would-be killer and protect his family.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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Serial killers with a code, far-future space operas, superheroes doing battle with dastardly villains.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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But just to use an example, Force Awakens sets up Snoke as the big villain of the new trilogy, with a mysterious backstory.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
12 July 2025
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Thanks to another recent court ruling, the FCC has also had a harder time fining wrongdoers, Quilici explained.—
Alix Martichoux,
The Hill,
20 June 2025
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The wrongdoers of today will soon fear his particular brand of Old West Justice!—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
Noun
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King's polo playing husband, Bill Mitchell — who went on to become a director for Texaco — became the model for Daisy’s rich brute of a husband, Tom Buchanan.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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This freshly re-imagined Jag is worlds apart from that old German brute, but was similar in the sense of feeling wonderfully light and responsive, and utilizing hydraulic fluid to power its steering.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The American project is a patchwork of dreamers and doers, saints and sinners, stitched together by the thread of promise that stretches across generations.—
F. Willis Johnson,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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Horses and men, dust and earth, saints and sinners.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
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When Sinner got an early break in the fourth with another monster backhand, there was an inevitability about the outcome.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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The enormous bones and monster jaws, the ridged backs and barbed tails.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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“Evildoer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evildoer. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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