Evil and Outrage

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Evil noun - That which is morally unacceptable.

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Outrage is a synonym for evil in practice topic. In some cases you can use "Outrage" instead a noun "Evil", when it comes to topics like badness, abomination, act of cruelty.

Nearby Word: evilly

Outrage noun - An act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings.

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Evil is a synonym for outrage in atrocity topic. Sometimes you can use "Evil" instead a noun "Outrage", if it concerns topics such as practice.

full	full evil	full outrage
original	original evil	original outrage
genuine	genuine evil	genuine outrage
sheer	sheer evil	sheer outrage
Other adjectives: obvious, actual, real, great, little, personal, general, less.

Given Doyle's record at creating outrage with his evil secret societies, it's understandable that he wanted to play this one safe.

Source: Literature / The Valley of Fear
Subverted in The Long Kiss Goodnight where the dead Arab is the scapegoat of the film's evil CIA operatives staging a terrorist outrage to increase their budget.

Source: Acceptable Ethnic Targets
In general, a key part of the Doctor's motivation for doing what he does is his righteous outrage at the rules and regulations the Time Lords lived by, which prevented them from acting to oppose evil, instead being content merely to stand aloof.

Source: Screw The Rules Im Doing Whats Right / Live-Action TV

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