Apt anagram for "vile"

The answer

EVIL

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EVIL answer page.

Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EVIL

Every other clue in this collection answered by EVIL, most used first.

• Wicked - used 397 times, most recently in 2026
• Bad to the bone - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Satanic - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Diabolical - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Villainous - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Malevolent - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Sinister - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Nefarious - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Satan's forte - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Wickedness - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Pernicious - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Dastardly - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Malefic - used 35 times, most recently in 2020
• Demonic - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Fiendish - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• It's not good - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Malicious - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Mean business - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Rotten to the core - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Good opponent - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Sinful - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Corrupt - used 24 times, most recently in 2020
• Depraved - used 23 times, most recently in 2009
• Good fighter - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• The dark side - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Bad - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Satan's specialty - used 21 times, most recently in 2016
• Heinous - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• Devil's doings - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
• Iniquitous - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of eye - used 18 times, most recently in 1994
• Like Darth Vader - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
• Up to no good - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Maleficent - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Not good - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Worse than bad - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Base - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• "Midnight in the Garden of Good and ___" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "See no __, . . ." - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Apt anagram of "vile" - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Blackhearted - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Good's opponent - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Really, really bad - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Black-hearted - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Demonic doings - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Devilish - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Diabolic - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Dastardly doings - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• ___ eye. - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Iniquity - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Injurious - used 10 times, most recently in 2000
• No good - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Not good at all - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Beyond bad - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Dark doings - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "... deliver us from ___" - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Downright rotten - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Good's opposite - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Like Satan - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• "Maleficent: Mistress of ___" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Satan's doing - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Wicked as sin - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Demon's doing - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Devil's doing - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Harmful - used 8 times, most recently in 1997
• Like Mr. Hyde - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Like supervillains - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Malevolence - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Opposite of good - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Rank and vile - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Really bad - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Sermon subject - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Sin - used 8 times, most recently in 1990
• "The ___ that men do . . . " - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Villain's work - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Wrongdoing - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Bad doings - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Christie's "___ Under the Sun" - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Good battler - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Like Lucifer - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Maleficence - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Satan's work - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Ahriman's forte - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Badder than bad - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Devil's work - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Like a villain - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Like villains - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Santana's "___ Ways" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Sermon topic - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Three monkeys' subject - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Turpitude - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Very bad - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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