Wrongdoing

The answer

EVIL

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• SIN (16 uses in xd)
• MISDEED (4 uses in xd)
• ERROR (3 uses in xd)
• CRIME (2 uses in xd)
• SINS (2 uses in xd)

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
• Apt anagram for "vile" - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• 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
• 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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• Help in wrongdoing - ABET, used 37 times
• Aid in wrongdoing - ABET, used 30 times
• Legal wrongdoing - TORT, used 7 times

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