In the Dictionary of Synonyms
demon, hypocritical, cunning, cunning; cunning, with a cunning, cunning, crooked, cunning like a fox, arapist, thieving, malicious, accursed, with a cunning, devilish, mischievous, roguish, swindling, on his own mind, devil, devil, devil, don’t put your finger in your mouth, Jesuitical, roguish, rascally, wobbling, evil spirit, insidious, demon, roguish, don’t put a finger in your mouth, playful, Machiavellian, unclean spirit, cunning, pursing, evil spirit, Machiavellian, Satan, feigned
Meaning
Let's start with the fact that if a person uses this word in its literal meaning, then it does not carry anything good. The evil one is:
- Unkind.
- The one who lies and deceives.
- Dishonest.
- Cunning, with a pebble in his bosom.
- Treacherous.
- Unholy.
But if we are talking about a figurative meaning. For example, a girl looks at a guy slyly. This does not mean at all that she is deceiving him, being cunning with him, or, to take it higher, that she is unfaithful to him. No, absolutely not. When a girl looks at a guy slyly, this is, on the contrary, a good sign, because such a look indicates the woman’s interest.
And in this context, the adjective “crafty” is playful.
But slyness in a good figurative sense can accompany relationships not only between lovers, but also between parents and children. When, for example, a child wants to surprise mom or dad and he doesn’t have enough composure to hide his intention. His eyes (which, as we know, are the mirror of the soul) sparkle when he thinks about how happy his parents will be when they receive a gift. The eyes glow mischievously. It is impossible to say more precisely.
In the dictionary Complete accentuated paradigm according to A. A. Zaliznya
1 . wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked howl, wicked, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, crafty, half-cunning, crafty, half-cunning 2 . wicked, crafty, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked
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Phraseologism “from the evil one”
It is impossible to consider the meaning of the word “evil” and not say a single word about the phraseological unit that is directly related to it. The analyzed adjective is linked in the popular consciousness not only with evil, but also with complexity and ornateness. Most people don't really like complexity at all because they don't understand it. True, it also happens that in the heat of an argument a person resorts to very weak arguments. And they say to him: “This is from the evil one,” i.e. there is no substance behind these arguments. They are solely aimed at confusing and confusing the interlocutor. Which, in fact, is what the devil did in his time.
Initially, the Bible insists that a person give only one-word answers to any question: either negative or positive. And under no circumstances should a person swear on anything. If this happens, then the devil is definitely playing with a man or a woman, leading them into temptation and wanting to take away the immortal soul of people.
The phraseology “from the evil one” is not limited to the meaning recorded in the dictionary. Language is a living formation, so the play with meaning largely depends on the speaker. When a person says: “This is from the evil one,” then, in principle, not only the weak arguments of the interlocutor, but anything in general can fall into disfavor. For example, someone doesn’t like technical innovations or the media, and he says: “This is from the evil one.” And such a strategy is completely arbitrary. We think no one understands why some phenomena are from the devil and others from God.
One way or another, we looked at the adjective “evil”, its meaning, synonyms and talked a little about the phraseological unit where it is involved.
With the evil one according to his wickedness (Bible)
In gratitude for deliverance from his enemies, King David glorified the Lord with a song, in which, in particular, it was said: “You deal mercifully with the merciful, sincerely with the sincere man, purely with the pure, and with the evil one according to his wickedness” (2 Samuel 22:26,27; cf. Psalm 18:26 [17:27]).
A parable about the truth of lies and deceit:
Since time immemorial, along the road that leads from the port of Three Lands to the old city of Scarlet - the capital of the magical land of Fairy Tale, there lived a puddle named Dema. Her father, May Rain, and her mother, Morning Dew, did not remember their daughter, the child of random, fleeting love, from birth, and Dema did not remember them.
Days and years passed, Dema grew up, gaining strength and wisdom, day after day listening to merchants who were carrying their goods or travelers traveling light. Scraps of words, laughter, crying, even blood - her life consisted of this. Dyoma met and saw off everyone, from each she received grains of something new. But at the same time, I didn’t notice: how dust and dirt rose from under the wheels of carts and people’s feet; there were those who even threw garbage into it. The surface of Dema has long since become transparent, and the clean air around has been replaced by a terrible smell of rot.
And across the road, young Buttercup, a joker, sprouted; the wind carried his seed from a distant field and threw it, laughing, to the side of the road. Buttercup was not handsome, and no one paid attention to him, but one morning Dema, waking up from sleep, saw Rose instead of Buttercup. White, beautiful flower.
An early traveler passing by stopped, amazed and surprised by its beauty, caressed the tender leaves and smiled at his thoughts. In parting, he approached the flower very close and inhaled its aroma:
- Its smell is so wonderful!
It’s a pity that it’s spoiled by the stench from the puddle opposite - muttering with regret, he left, smiling and humming something to himself.
- “The stink of a puddle”!? I? ... I can't, no! “Dyoma cried and spent that day in bitter thoughts; everyone who passed by said how ugly and disgusting she was.
The sun set, and instead of the beautiful rose, as before, there was Buttercup. -What? He lied, he is not a rose! He's Buttercup! – she exclaimed, saddenedly she added:
- And I? I am a dirty and stinking puddle – and I began to cry quietly again.
- But if he is, then I can also turn into crystal! To bring joy and life-giving moisture to road-weary travelers! But does that mean lying? Life is a lie every day! How low and mean this is! No, never, she decided and fell asleep with relief.
So the days passed, people still smiled at the flower and scolded Dema, only one traveler looked at her thoughtfully and left without saying a word. Before sunset he returned, holding a horse harnessed to a cart by the bridles. In the cart, river sand poured over the edges, the man deftly set to work, and before dark there was not a trace left of the puddle.
Night came, Buttercup was sad, he could not understand how he could put his “worthless” principles above all else and not bring joy and benefit to others.
Let's think about how often we try to seem better to people than we really are. But let’s think about how much what we do is needed by God, how we look in His eyes...
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Saints about wickedness
The Bible says a lot about guile, cunning and deceit. Almost all the saints expressed their opinion about this most unpleasant quality of the human soul. For it is precisely this that destroys it from the inside and brings negative influence to the surrounding world.
Often in their legends, the monks use an adjective from this word, which also has a corresponding meaning in every biblical saying.
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Apostle Paul
The Holy Apostle Paul used it to characterize the era, saying that Jesus “gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age.” The evil age is the time when fallen man lives, a time of all-consuming egoism and irreconcilable passions.
Macarius the Great
This word was often used by the holy fathers, in particular the Monk Macarius the Great, calling that “the evil prince is the kingdom of darkness,” which captivated a person, invested his soul with power, in order to make him a king in all deeds and words. Thus, the human soul is still in sin, and his entire being is desecrated and has no freedom in thoughts, mind, or body.
Saint Basil
Saint Basil viewed wickedness as ingenuity for evil intentions. This happens when a person, hiding behind good thoughts and deeds, offers the same to another as bait. Benefit, selfishness, selfishness - and only by cunning, without the slightest hint of sincere intentions on one’s part.
Simeon the Theologian
The Monk Simeon the Theologian wrote more than once that one must not indulge in carelessness and inaction, for they give rise to wickedness, and from it all evil is born.
The Bible contains a huge amount of reflections on this quality of the human spirit. One thing is clear: deceit is a sin. And there is no reason to argue with this, because everything that is generated from the evil one brings only bad things. And a person has the right to choose the path to follow. And each such choice is a choice of a lifetime - truth, sincerity and devotion to God or selfishness, lies and selfishness. Faith is not born from sin, but it is the meaning of all existence.
Meaning of the word crafty
Examples of the use of the word crafty in literature.
Grisha, the crafty Hagarians are slaughtering our brothers, multiplying like cockroaches, spreading all over the world.
AND ABOUT EVELY DELIVERANCE Hans Castorp identified on his balcony a plant that, now that the astronomical summer had begun and the days began to wane, came across almost every step: columbine or aquilegia, from the ranunculaceae family, growing as a bush, with blue, purple or red-brown flowers on long stems and with large, top-like leaves.
“He is the culmination of Kevin’s Teachings,” Amok said slyly, as if he were making a subtle joke.
Lope de Vega, who created this stage role - the role of a clever or, conversely, clumsy servant, often of a smart and crafty peasant.
Alexander asked who Arakcheev was, but Gorchakov looked at him, squinting slyly, shrugged his shoulders and grinned with self-satisfaction.
Surely this was not the atrium through which the crafty fellow traveler got out of the ecolat.
Bazhov always speaks jokingly about fairy-tale characters and fairy-tale events, with a sly grin.
A close look at the faces of the peasants, unusually cheeky, and another look at the pretty peasant women, whispering among themselves and looking slyly at him, now explained to him that this wedding procession was just a joke of the baroness’s guests.
Faith defends the soul from the arrows of the evil one, unbelief counteracts the arrows of conviction.
And so they rode, and the evil one madly praised them for his salvation, and then Tristan, who was riding first, saw a large detachment of knights.
Having sat down near the table, Biryukov looked into Veselkin’s enlarged glasses and always sly eyes.
He grinned slyly about the fact that Big Woman, whose vineyard was next door, came to greet him: therefore, she, too, began to respect him when she learned that he had an income.
About three months ago, the crafty and cautious Signoria sent Machiavelli for negotiations with Cesare Borgia, whom it hoped to outwit by responding to all his proposals for a defensive alliance against common enemies, Volio, Orsini and Vitelli, with platonic and ambiguous expressions of friendship.
Then she returned to her husband and with a tender and sly smile asked him: “Since my dear Belshazzar is with me again, give him to me entirely!”
Dona Dagmara, a lively and beautiful talker with a very sharp tongue, slyly remarked: “This is a widow’s migraine, my dear, but there is an excellent cure for it - marriage.”
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Bow 'bend'
The word onion (from the Proto-Slavic *lǫka) in the modern Russian literary language is polysemantic. Firstly, it is an 'arc-shaped bend of the river bed'. A synonym is the cognate noun bend . Another name for a bow is a cape formed at a river turn, as well as a bend or curvature of something in general. For example, you can say: onions are expensive. However, such word usage is now rare.
In addition, the word bow means 'part of the saddle'. Riding saddles have the front and back edges raised upward to allow the rider to sit comfortably and more securely balance on the horse's back. These parts of the saddle are curved and are called the pommel and pommel.
Note. The stress in the word luk falls on the second syllable in singular forms, and in the plural - on the first: luka, but lukami, lukami, about lukami.
In some dialects, luka is a floodplain meadow bordered by a river bend.
From the words onion and sea, the now obsolete word lukomorye 'curved shore of the sea bay' is formed.
Bow weapon'
The bow is one of the oldest types of weapons, used by almost all peoples. The Slavs gave the name to the object based on its appearance: bows, even without a taut string, have a curved shape, and to fire they need to be bent even more.
The dialects preserved the verb lukat 'throw, throw', formed from the noun bow, apparently back in the pre-Slavic era. A bow is a tool for throwing arrows, and, most likely, to bow at first only meant “to shoot from a bow.” Over time, the meaning of the verb expanded, it became possible to bow a variety of objects - without the help of a bow, just throw them with your hands. In some dialects and other Slavic languages, a similar verb means 'throw a stone with a sling'.
Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ was formed from the verb *lękti 'to bend, bend'. This verb has not been preserved in modern Slavic languages, and it would hardly have been possible to restore it without comparing Slavic words with Baltic ones. In Lithuanian, the etymology of the noun lankas 'onion; arc, hoop' is quite transparent: this word, related to our bow, is derived from the verb leñkti 'to bend'. And the Lithuanian adjective lankus means 'flexible'. Proto-Indo-European stem *leng-/*long- 'to bend'.
Other related words
As you can see, in the modern Russian literary language there are not very many words etymologically related to the root -luk- 'crooked, curved'. Now this root is unproductive: new words are not formed with it, and many of the previously existing ones are gone or are becoming a thing of the past. In dictionaries of the Old Russian language you can find many examples in addition to those given above:
- bow 'hook, loop';
- lukyi 'crooked', 'cunning, crafty';
- lukati 'to act treacherously, treacherously';
- bulbous 'with curvature, curved';
- crafty 'twisting, twisted', 'bad', 'treacherous';
- bow-nosed 'with a hooked, crooked nose';
- onion-shaped 'winding, curved' (onion-shaped movement, as described in one of the texts of the 15th century arch “Great Cheti-Minea”, is a movement in a circle or similar to how a snake crawls), etc.
We do not set a goal to list in the article all words with the root -luk-, we only draw attention to the fact that their semantics necessarily includes the element 'curved, curved' or developed on its basis.
The noun onion 'garden or wild plant' does not belong to the group of related words under consideration. It coincided in pronunciation with the word bow 'weapon', apparently by accident. Its root never had a nasal vowel. Although the etymology of the word is not indisputable, the most convincing version is considered to be an ancient, pre-Slavic borrowing from Germanic languages. Our word onion 'plant' is cognate with Old Icelandic laukr and Anglo-Saxon leak in the same sense.
