Read full poem →Not patriots or people’s men,
In whom two worse-match’d evils meet
Than ever sought Adullam’s den,
Dictionary Entry
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
In a Sentence
“Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “evils”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →for the future but it holds the one remedy for the
evils of the past. As it stands to-day, war is
the one way in which America can express its
Read full poem →accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are
more di-posed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves ty abolishing the forms to which they are
Read full poem →To keep at bay
Age and age's evils, hoar hair,
Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death's worst, winding
Read full poem →To keep at bay
Age and age's evils, hoar hair,
Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death's worst, winding
Read full poem →Leigh Hunt and his friends on Keats was that he became
obnoxious to those evils which inevitably beset every
literary coterie, that he learned rather to encourage than
Read full poem →CHAPTER 28 -- Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than
of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by
heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in
Read full poem →Which torture the tenants of earth;
And the various evils, _10
Which like so many devils,
Read full poem →Thrice happy saint! to find thy heav'n at last,
What compensation for the evils past!
Great God, incomprehensible, unknown
Read full poem →Thrice happy faint! to find thy heav'n at last,
What compensation for the evils past!
Great God, incomprehensible, unknown