pure evil
Absolute evil; that has no sense of morality or mercy at allAbsolute evil; that has no sense of morality or mercy at all.
» What Tom did is pure evil.
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1 senses(uncountable)Absolute evil; that has no sense of morality or mercy at all.
Examples
5 sentencesWhat Tom did is pure evil.
This is just pure evil.
The statue was a representation of pure unfiltered evil.
It's pure evil.
deEs ist das Böse in Reinform. — brauchinet
Damiano had a look on his face that I could only described as pure evil.
Origin
Has been rising in usage from other phrases using this sense of pure since around the 1950Has 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.
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Antonyms
1 antonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.