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the root of all evil
crime / evil / sin
HSK 6
evil tyrant
malignant tumor
(idiom) fiends; devils; monsters
nausea / to feel sick / disgust / nauseating / to embarrass (deliberately)
HSK 4
bad habit / vicious habit / vice
to loathe / to hate / disgusted with sth
vile / nasty / of very poor quality
HSK 7-9
to do evil
to uphold virtue and condemn evil (idiom)
lit. likes and dislikes / preferences / taste
malicious
evil spirit / devil
evil or wicked conduct
guilty of terrible crimes (idiom) / reprehensible
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
repulsive / vile / hateful / abominable
HSK 7-9
malignant / wicked / vicious (circle) / producing evil / rapid (decline) / runaway (inflation)
HSK 7-9
evil forces / criminal elements
ruthless
(idiom) to have committed heinous crimes
to eradicate evil completely (idiom); thorough in rooting out wickedness
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
the guilty party files the suit / the thief cries thief
Castlevania (video game series)
ugly / repulsive
HSK 7-9
to worsen
HSK 7-9
malice / ill will
demon / fiend
Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom).
dioxin
very fierce
bad habit / vice
malicious code (e.g. virus) / malware
(idiom) the evil is overwhelming
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
wicked beyond redemption (idiom) / heinous
to have sinister motives
evil has its retribution (idiom); to suffer the consequences of one's bad deeds / sow the wind and reap the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7)
evil consequence / retribution (in Buddhism)
to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you
spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
feeling of guilt
sinister / vicious / wicked / evil
HSK 7-9
likes and dislikes
malware (computing)
dangerous / sinister / vicious
doing good is like a hard climb, doing evil is like an easy fall (idiom)
practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
filthy / foul
to curse fiercely
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  *恶* | 恶* | *恶
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evil / fierce / vicious / ugly / coarse / to harm
HSK 7-9
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to hate / to loathe / ashamed / to fear / to slander
nightmare
violent wave / fierce billow / fig. depraved force
fiendish / black-hearted
to overdose on supplementary medicine / to cram too hard
hard fighting / fierce battle
turn away from evil and follow virtue
the Axis of Evil
misogyny
stink; stench / stinky; smelly / (fig.) disgusting; repugnant
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
fierce
to detest bitterly (idiom) / implacable hatred / to abhor / anathema
"human nature is evil", theory advocated by Xunzi 荀子
(philosophy) banal evil
hoodlum / bad guy
vicious circle
a rich young bully of old Shanghai
(idiom) to hate evil as one hates an enemy
to loathe / to abhor / hatred / revulsion
evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire
evil words / malicious talk
good and evil / good versus evil
hard fighting / fierce battle
young thug / malicious young ruffian
overbearing fiend
to insult / to direct bad language at sb / to slag off
to hate; to abhor
scoundrel; rogue; bully; villain
accumulated evil
to slander maliciously
to detest / to abhor
arch-criminal and archenemy (idiom)
evil person; vile creature; villain / (archaic) ugly person
malice / evil intention
HSK 7-9
to ridicule
lean year / year of bad harvest
evil smell / resentment / unpleasant manner
demon / fiend
malicious deed; misdeed / disaster; catastrophe
bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
evil oath
lit. to eat one's own bitter fruit (idiom) / fig. to suffer the consequences of one's own actions / to stew in one's own juice
to become enemies; to become hostile towards each other
sinister look

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