chaotic evil
- adjective
- Jargon
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maligno caótico
- They can be chaotic evil, if you will, like various clans, or lawful evil like the Volturi, or neutral good like the Cullens.
He was an assassin, a dark elf, chaotic evil, really good with daggers.
- He was an assassin, a dark elf, chaotic evil, really good with daggers.
- So they're like loft evil, whereas the American state in many ways is chaotic evil.
Examples
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In many role-playing games, a character that acts without regard for laws or morality is described as chaotic evil.
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The villain in the story is a classic example of chaotic evil, causing destruction and chaos wherever he goes.
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Players often create chaotic evil characters to emphasize their unpredictable and malevolent behavior.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from the constituents: 'chaotic' (disorderly, lawless) plus 'evil' (morally wrong/harmful) yields the sense of being both disorderly and malicious. Even though it is used as a technical RPG alignment label, a B1 learner who knows the two words can reliably infer the combined meaning.
Etymology
Chaotic evil comes from role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, where players used short labels to show a character's nature. It puts together chaotic, meaning not following rules and liking disorder, and evil, meaning 'wanting to hurt or harm'. So it describes someone who is both unpredictable and cruel, which is why we now use it for actions that are disorderly and malicious.
