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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Over a fingerpicked progression, he begins with “To pretend that everything will be just fine / That any wicked problem will dissolve over time.”
“How wicked is that, to love someone who should be my enemy, who has just bombed my city, killed my friends? How wicked is that?”
From Literature
Why should the Spirit help the clans, when some among them had been so wicked?
From Literature
He thought it was completely rational to tether me to some man before my wicked acts came to light.
From Literature
"The lies are so deep and so wicked that not a thing can be believed that came out of his mouth," Cherkasky said in his closing statements, calling Saxon "a professional victim".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
