Thesaurus / wicked
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synonyms for wicked
- devilish
- evil
- impish
- mischievous
- nasty
- naughty
- vicious
- villainous
- wayward
- abandoned
- abominable
- amoral
- arch
- atrocious
- bad news
- base
- contemptible
- debased
- degenerate
- depraved
- dissolute
- egregious
- fiendish
- flagitious
- foul
- gross
- guilty
- heartless
- heinous
- immoral
- impious
- incorrigible
- indecent
- iniquitous
- irreligious
- low-down
- mean
- nefarious
- profane
- reprobate
- rotten
- scandalous
- shameful
- shameless
- sinful
- unethical
- unprincipled
- unrighteous
- vile
- worthless
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- fierce
- outrageous
- ugly
- acute
- agonizing
- awful
- barbarous
- bothersome
- chancy
- crashing
- dangerous
- difficult
- distressing
- dreadful
- fearful
- galling
- harmful
- hazardous
- injurious
- intense
- mean
- mighty
- offensive
- painful
- perilous
- pesky
- risky
- severe
- terrible
- treacherous
- troublous
- trying
- uncivilized
- unconscionable
- ungodly
- unhealthy
- unholy
- unpleasant
- unsound
- vexatious
- deft
- able
- adept
- adroit
- au fait
- capable
- clever
- competent
- good
- masterly
- mighty
- outstanding
- powerful
- pretty
- qualified
- skillful
- strong
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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.
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There are wicked reminders, for instance, of her acid humor.
JOAN DIDION’S ‘LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN’ SHOWS A WRITER AHEAD OF HER TIMECHARLES ARROWSMITHFEBRUARY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTRevisiting historical debates about the Fairness Doctrine can help us think through these wicked problems.
THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WON’T SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS — BUT IT CAN FOSTER NEEDED DEBATEVICTOR PICKARDFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe player then traverses a gorgeously-rendered landscape and solves a series of wicked little puzzles in a heart-wrenching reunification quest.
THE 10 BEST VIDEO GAMES OF 2020ALEX FITZPATRICKNOVEMBER 20, 2020TIMEIn fact, if you go back even further, a pollster named Elmo Roper found that 47 percent of Americans found sexual relations for young people before marriage to be “wicked” back in 1939.
1 IN 4 AMERICANS STILL OPPOSE PREMARITAL SEXSEAN BRASWELLOCTOBER 24, 2020OZYBoth tell the stories of doomed criminals trying to make their way in a wicked world.
THE BEST SINGLE-PLAYER VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY RIGHT NOWMATTHEW GAULTMARCH 9, 2020TIMEIt is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.
THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOEThe bear watched him narrowly with its wicked little eyes, though it did not see fit to cease its paw-licking.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEO wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSNo sooner was the ceremony over than the wicked count ordered her to present herself at the castle.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSI ushered you into this wicked world, young man, and a nice use you seem to have made of your time.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGWORDS RELATED TO WICKED
- A-1
- A-OK
- ace
- attractive
- best ever
- cat's pajamas
- choice
- commendable
- cool
- copacetic
- crackerjack
- deserving
- dream
- estimable
- excellent
- exquisite
- fine
- good
- great
- greatest
- hunky-dory
- keen
- laudable
- meritable
- meritorious
- neat
- out of sight
- out of this world
- peachy
- praiseworthy
- rare
- solid
- super
- super-duper
- superior
- unreal
- valuable
- wicked
- wonderful
- worthy
- zero cool
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.