Evils
Ill
Ill noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.
Nearby Word: illness
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Mercy Kill: "Lesser Evils" features a serial killer who was euthanizing terminally ill patients in a hospital.
Source: Series / Elementary - The Evils of Free Will: anyone who thinks that the morals of the Geometer society are wrong is immediately labeled as ill and placed into a sanatorium, which is basically a penal colony.
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The killer in "Lesser Evils" when he finds out that a woman he killed because he thought she was terminally ill and was facing a slow and agonizing death, had actually just had surgery and was recovering.
Source: Series / Elementary
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