8 Shades of Evil

Toxic men and the adjectives they deserve

I've concluded that the trouble with the world is the men who have lead it into ruin and continue to do so. For the most part, there’s little I can do about them in the practical sense, but as an author, I find solace in words that capture aspects of their odious natures. So, in roughly most to least worst, here is my list. It’s by no mean exhaustive, so feel free to add your own nominees.

1. Vladimir Putin

• Barbaric

• Brutal

• Brutish

• Caliginous

• Choleric

• Delusional

• Grandiose

• Homophobic

• Irrational

• Machiavellian

• Narcissistic

• Paranoid

• Preening

• Psychopathic

• Sanguivorous

• Totalitarian

• War criminal

• Vile

2. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

• Antiquated

• Delusional

• Brutal

• Fossilized

• Homophobic

• Medieval

• Misogynist

• Moth-eaten

• Mummified

• Typhlotic

• Vile

3. D.J.T.

• Blow-hard

• Charlatan

• Criminal

• Delusional

• Ectoparasitic

• Fungating

• Grandiose

• Machiavellian

• Malignant

• Megalomaniac

• Misogynist

• Mythomaniac

• Narcissistic

• Peccant

• Psychopathic

• Pustular

• Pugilistic

• Putrefying

• Toxic

• Unctuous

4. Jair Bolsonaro (president of Brazil)

• Clueless

• Conspiratorial

• Cretinous

• Delusional

• Grandiose

• Homophobic

• Inflammatory

• Malignant

• Misogynist

• Narcissistic

• Pugilistic

• Pugnacious

• Toxic

• Trumpian

5. Greg Abbott (Governor of Texas)

• Bigoted

• Blow-hard

• Butyraceous

• Duplicitous

• Homophobic

• Malignant

• Pusillanimous

• Sanctimonious

6. Jim Jordan

• Addlepated

• Disordered

• Duplicitous

• Incoherent

• Malignant

• Pugnacious

• Pugilistic

• Vacuous

7. Josh Hawley

• Duplicitous

• Bumptious

• Fastuous

• Fatuous

• Hypocritical

• Narcissistic

• Oafish

• Pusillaminous

• Alabii superioris et inferioris (lacking an upper and lower lip)

8. Clarence Thomas

• Blow-hard

• Fossilized

• Homophobic

• Misogynist

• Supercilious

• Treacherous

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