Black magic
Black magic noun - The belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world.
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Wrong and black magic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wrong" instead a noun phrase "Black magic".
Wrong
Wrong noun - That which is morally unacceptable.
Black magic and wrong are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Black magic" instead a noun "Wrong".
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- Dresden Files: Maggie LeFay, having the best intentions, skirted the bounds between white and black magic, falling in with what one might call "the wrong crowd", one of whom murders her in childbirth.
Source: Parents as People -
Whatever the reason, she's spent so little time actually married that she has to resort to black magic in order to have a child, namely the villain of the piece (well, maybe "resort" is the wrong word; she was a witch to begin with).
Source: Black Widow -
In Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, even using a purely benign magical item for the best of purposes with no conception that you're doing anything wrong will damn your soul to Hell if the item's original creator used Black Magic to create it.
Source: Black Magic
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