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EVIL-MINDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evil-minded mean?
• EVIL-MINDED (adjective)
The adjective EVIL-MINDED has 1 sense:
1. having evil thoughts or intentions
Familiarity information: EVIL-MINDED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having evil thoughts or intentions
Similar:
evil (morally bad or wrong)
Context examples
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere—and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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