Then the google description of evil, also, begs the question. However, this is likely a willfull cop out on the dictionary's part in order to avoid whatever fight you're obviously trying to pick. Or perhaps it's qualia, who knows. I personally define evil as basically taking pleasure at another misspleasure -- and all the synomyms of evil simply reflect the degrees of severity. Bullying a nerd, and killing 6 million jews should not warrant the same adjective but the sentiment is the same.