Difference between Evil and Mephistophelean

EVIL vs MEPHISTOPHELEAN: NOUN

The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
Any particular individual or state which may follow these forces or behaviors.
The forces/behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. Evil generally seeks own benefit at the expense of others and is based on general malevolence.
Morally objectionable behavior
That which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction.
An evil force, power, or personification.
Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction.
Malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
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; -- opposed to good.
A fork; a hayfork.
A halter.
A harmful or wrong deed.
Anything that causes injury, as to the body, mind, or feelings; anything that harms or is likely to harm.
A malady or disease: as, the king's evil (which see, below).
Conduct contrary to the standard of morals or righteousness, or a disposition toward such conduct; violation of the moral law; harmful intention or purpose.
The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous.
Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous.
Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful.
Morally bad or wrong; wicked.
Having or exerting a malignant influence
Having the nature of vice
Morally bad or wrong
Tending to cause great harm
Characterized by anger or spite; malicious.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
Unpleasant.
Undesirable; harmful; bad practice
The Devil; Satan.
Speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness.
An eye which inflicts injury by some magical or fascinating influence. It is still believed by the ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the supernatural power of injuring by a look.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious.
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, “a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;” devilish in character or aspect; crafty; showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness.
Alternative capitalization of Mephistophelean
Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil

Proceeding from, due to, or purporting to be due to immorality or badness of conduct or character.
Contrary to an accepted standard of right or righteousness; inconsistent with or violating the moral law; bad; sinful; wicked: as, evil deeds; an evil heart.
Proceeding from a desire to injure; hostile.
The good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
Having harmful qualities or characteristics; productive of or attended by harm or injury; hurtful to the body, mind, or feelings; effecting mischief, trouble, or pain; bad: as, an evil genius; evil laws.
Compar. usually worse, superl. worst (see bad), or more evil, most evil (rarely eviler, evilest).
To fall ill or sick.
Not well; ill.
Not virtuously; not innocently.
3 and Bad, vile, base, vicious, wicked, iniquitous.
Injuriously.
Not happily; unfortunately.

Unholy, Immorality, Immoral, Despicable, Fiendish, Diabolic, Vile, Devilish, Sinister, Diabolical, Wicked, Satanic, Demonic, Malevolent, Wickedness

Smarmy, Minatory, Necromantic, Elfish, Saturnine, Machiavellian, Fiendish, Faustian, Demoniacal, Demonic, Evil, Diabolical, Diabolic, Wicked, Devilish

Unholy, Immorality, Immoral, Despicable, Fiendish, Diabolic, Vile, Devilish, Sinister, Diabolical, Wicked, Satanic, Demonic, Malevolent, Wickedness

Smarmy, Minatory, Necromantic, Elfish, Saturnine, Machiavellian, Fiendish, Faustian, Demoniacal, Demonic, Evil, Diabolical, Diabolic, Wicked, Devilish

And there is also the evil doctor Noontonyt plotting evil schemes on a remote tropical island.
Thus, pain or sorrow for that which is truly evil cannot be the greatest evil.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Western traditions, evil is expressed through deities, who are seldom completely evil.
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The evil mermaids are orphaned evil mermaid sisters.
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Do no evil, and evil will never befall you.
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As Simon, the oldest and most diabolical of the holy terrors, Thomas Sangster wears the Mephistophelean grin of a pubescent Mick Jagger plotting mischief.
Mephistophelean laugh, abruptly one of the rowers dropped his oar and began to bail with a small bucket, their joints cracking loud as wood.
Mephistophelean character out of Carolina, he hammered away at some harplike instrument and sang in a bone chilling soprano voice.
His mephistophelean eyebrows were raised interrogatively, and he was smiling so as to exhibit a row of uneven yellow teeth.