wicked
Usage
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Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Ill now appears mainly in certain fixed expressions, with a milder implication than that in evil: ill will; ill-natured. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits.
Example Sentences
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Cumming’s host persona may not be evil per se, but he is wicked enough for his beloved pooch, Lala, to look absolutely angelic trotting next to him.
From Salon
In Hamburg, Leipzig took the lead with 66 minutes gone when Diomande's speculative effort took a wicked deflection and landed in the net.
From Barron's
It would mention his role in drafting the Fairfax Resolves at Mount Vernon in 1774, which condemned the slave trade as “wicked cruel and unnatural” and called for putting “an entire Stop” to it.
“La Malinche was not a wicked person. On the contrary, I would say that her intelligence places her among the great women in the history of Mexico.”
From Los Angeles Times
The Hammers were again inspired by captain Bowen, who contributed a goal from the penalty spot after an assist for Summerville with a wicked cross.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
