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pure evil

noun

Etymology

Has been rising in usage from other phrases using this sense of pure since around the 1950s. Has been rising exponentially as a set phrase since the 1990s.

Definitions

  1. Absolute evil

    Absolute evil; that has no sense of morality or mercy at all.

    • I can only say I was captivated by the film and its stealthy evocation of pure evil.

  2. Absolutely evil

    Absolutely evil; having no sense of morality or mercy whatsoever.

    • This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pure evil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA