evil doer

Roget-categorie 913

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.2. Diffusive sympathetic affections

#913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer

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evil doer, evil worker — wrongdoer etc. 949 — mischief-maker, marplot — oppressor, tyrant — destroyer, Vandal — iconoclast^†.
firebrand, incendiary, fire bug [U.S.], pyromaniac — anarchist, communist^†, terrorist.
savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian^†, caitiff, desperado — Apache^†, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly [U.S.], Red Skin, tough [U.S.] — Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk — bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin^†, dangerous classes, ugly customer — thief etc. 792.
cockatrice, scorpion, hornet.
snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass — serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda^†.
canker-worm, wire-worm — locust, Colorado beetle — alacran^†, alligator, caymon^†, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus — torpedo — bane etc. 663.
cutthroat etc. (killer) 461.
cannibal — anthropophagus^†, anthropophagist^† — bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture — gyrfalcon^†, gerfalcon^†.
wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman — blood-hound, hell-hound, sleuth-hound — catamount [U.S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.
hag, hellhag^†, beldam, Jezebel.
monster — fiend etc. (demon) 980 — devil incarnate, demon in human shape — Frankenstein's monster.
harpy, siren — Furies, Eumenides.
Hun, Attila^†, scourge of the human race.

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faenum habet in cornu [Lat.].

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