 In modern colloquial English it [evil]; is little used, such currency as it has being due to literary influence. In quite familiar speech the adjective is commonly superseded by bad; the noun is somewhat more frequent, but chiefly in the widest senses, the more specific senses being expressed by other words, such as harm, injury, misfortune, disease, etc. (“evil, adj. and n.1”, under A., abbreviations expanded, OED Online, accessed September 2021)