wickedness

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Wickedness sounds so medieval, so Grimm’s—a throwback to the era of Macbeth, in fact—but it remains a subject of serious debate among sophisticated contemporary moral philosophers such as Mary Midgely and John Hick.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2013

"Wickedness was like food," they found, "once you got started it was hard to stop."

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012

Nothing could be more wackily multifocal than The Tents of Wickedness, a story told through a sequence of parodies of other writers, among them Marquand, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Proust, Joyce and Kafka.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wickedness is incorrigible when adorned with a show of piety, and so is oppression when it assumes the disguise of justice and foresight.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas

A Wicked Camp Remedy for Wickedness Perhaps he ran from the awful wickedness of the camp as well as from the famine and pestilence.

From Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm by Goodsell, Daniel A.