How to Use evildoer in a Sentence

evildoer

noun
  • The sheriff is protecting the community from evildoers.
  • And he was jacked, a hulking man who was not afraid to drop-kick a kid who was part of a gang of evildoers.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • An evildoer decides to do a reversal of the good and the bad.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • This might be a clever ploy by AI makers or evildoers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • If the camera lingers on a pair of stiletto heels, shouldn’t some evildoer be gaffed on one by the end of the episode?
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Imagine an evildoer that wants to make trouble for self-driving cars.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Fuss, fume, gnash teeth and point fingers at evildoers, real or imagined?
    — Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Whole gangs of crows followed the evildoer, scolding and dive-bombing.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • At least with a plot or a scheme there are bad actors to blame, evildoers to curse, enemies to get revenge on.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 30 June 2024
  • Or better yet, why couldn’t he be reimagined as a long and elegant evildoer?
    — The Deadline Team, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Oopsie, suppose an evildoer finds or figures out the secret code.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • He was supposed to be the hero who caught bad guys and investigated evildoers.
    — Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • Victim-shaming must be quelled, and the real evildoers called out and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Victim-shaming must be quelled, and the real evildoers called out and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
    — Mira Sorvino, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • An evildoer opts to access AGI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • After taking that summer to recover, the evildoer grief struck yet again when my mother passed away.
    — Kevin Lewis, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
  • An evildoer or bad hacker might glean something from the steps and be armed to undermine the AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • But if the other truth is ignored by parents, well, go on blaming guns for acts of evil instead of actual evildoers.
    — Greg Gutfeld, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • That could be technology so powerful that an evildoer could use it to make weapons of mass destruction.
    — Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Prince Fichael lives in a human colony on an alien world and vows to rid the planet of evil — but then learns his dad’s the biggest evildoer of them all.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • There is an equally plausible chance that AGI could be an evildoer.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Entity is too abstract to qualify as a world-class evildoer.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
  • Perhaps the evildoer asks for something seemingly innocuous but is part of a subtle step in a larger evil plan.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Having referred to John Smith as being like the famed evildoer, is absolutely a form of hate speech.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The result isn't a shades-of-gray spread of evildoers' responsibility.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
  • An evildoer might focus on a particular set of self-driving cars made by company X.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Would this newfound power bring out the best in you, instilling you with the courage to discreetly sabotage the efforts of evildoers?
    — Marc Longenecker, Time, 4 Mar. 2020
  • There aren’t any foul words per se in the essay, other than alluding to the famed evildoer and equating that person with John Smith.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The glaringly obvious evildoer and patently secretive femme fatale are guilty the whole time.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Two people are knocked out, hung from a ceiling and threatened with death as part of an effort to stop evildoers from detonating nuclear bombs in major cities.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

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