Adjective

(er)

Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

* Spenser

the ugly view of his deformed crimes

* (William Shakespeare)

O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.

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Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

Adjective

Intending to harm; malevolent.

Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?

Morally corrupt.

an evil plot to kill innocent people

* Shakespeare

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.

Unpleasant. (rfex)

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19

He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.

* Shakespeare

The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.

* Milton

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop

* Bible, Matthew vii. 18

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.

(computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice

Global variables are evil ; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.