"evil" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He opposed ignorance, superstitions and evil customs prevalent in the Muslim society.
- Nay, the evil custom reaches into the whole institution of property, until our laws which establish and protect it, seem not to be the issue of love and reason, but of selfishness.
- Still, I think it an evil custom.
- The first evil custom which I abolished as a judge was the custom of women remaining with their husbands after they had been divorced.
- Abuses of burial and marriage and some popular evil customs corrected.
- An evil place; based on an evil custom.
- "An evil custom," Balen said, "Is this, that none whom chance hath led Hither, if knighthood crown his head, May pass unstirred to strife."
- Trapped in an evil custom against your will.
- The Pope also ordered Bishop William to ensure that his own property was left to the church; the former complained of the "evil custom" whereby the Earls of Strathearn would take the property of all deceased bishops.
- I know nothing of its value, of course, but... The roads are not entirely free of evil customs..." "She had four men to guard her," cried Nicholas, one last flare in desperation, "And they knew what she carried?
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