Money vs Evil - What's the difference?
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A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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, title= A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth.
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
(as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
* Shakespeare
Unpleasant. (rfex)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 18
(computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
* Bible, (Ecclesiastes). ix. 3
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, title= Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.
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(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
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* Addison
As nouns the difference between money and evil
is that money is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply while evil is moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.As an adjective evil is
intending to harm; malevolent.money
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(money)Noun
(wikipedia money)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
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Synonyms
* beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga * (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value) * (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value) * (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins) * See alsoDerived terms
* bad money * bank money * bar money * black money * blood money * bullet money * call money * cash money * caution money * checkbook money * coat money * conduct money * conscience money * cost of money * credit money * current money * deposit money * dirty money * dispatch money * door money * earnest money * easy money * even money * fiat money * folding money * foreign money * front money * full-bodied money * fun money * funny money * get one's money's worth * gun money * hard money * head money * hot money * house money * hush money * if money * in the money * key money * lawful money * mad money * maundy money * money belt * money broker * money changer * money changing * money chest * money clip * money cowrie * money crop * money doesn't grow on trees * money economy * money illusion * money laundering * moneymaker * money makes the world go round * money market * money of account * money order * money pit * money plant * money rate * money scrivener * money supply * money spider * money spinner * money's worth * Monopoly money * near-money * necessity money * neutral money * new money * old money * paper money * pin money * plastic money * plate money * play money * pocket money * power of money * price of money * prize money * protection money * push money * ready money * rent money * representative money * run for one's money * seed money * ship money * side money * silly money * sin money * sit down money * smart money * spending money * sound money * standard money * till money * time money * time is money * token money * tribute money * trophy money * up-front money * value for moneyStatistics
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Adjective
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?
- an evil plot to kill innocent people
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.
- He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
- The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.
- Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
- Global variables are evil ; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Synonyms
* nefarious * malicious * malevolent * See alsoAntonyms
* goodDerived terms
* evil eye * evil laugh * evil laughter * evilly * evil-minded * Evil One * evil twin * evilnessNoun
(wikipedia evil)- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
- The evil that men do lives after them.
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil .