At cross-purposes
Evil and at cross-purposes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Evil" instead an adjective phrase "At cross-purposes".
Evil
Evil adjective - Not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable.
At cross-purposes and evil are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "At cross-purposes" instead an adjective "Evil".
Nearby Word: evilly
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- nasty and at cross-purposes
- nasty and evil
- wicked and at cross-purposes
- wicked and evil
- hurtful and at cross-purposes
- hurtful and evil
- injurious and at cross-purposes
- injurious and evil
- malicious and at cross-purposes
- malicious and evil
- adverse and at cross-purposes
- adverse and evil
- detrimental and at cross-purposes
- detrimental and evil
Both terms in one sentence
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Evil Virtues: From time to time, the heroes will be dealing with a Well-Intentioned Extremist (or even a relatively heroic character who is simply serving a different nation at cross-purposes to the USA).
Source: Series / JAG -
Can be a sign that Evil Cannot Comprehend Good — the villain sees the hero as a Worthy Opponent who happens to be working at cross-purposes to him, but doesn't understand the hero's visceral hatred of everything he stands for.
Source: Polite Villains, Rude Heroes
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