wicked
Usage
What are other ways to say wicked?
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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The youngest wants to dress as a member of WICKED, the nefarious organisation that experiments on people in The Maze Runner, which I think is the best idea I’ve heard.
From The Guardian • May 5, 2018
Now it was confirmed: the red light from its eye cast a creepy glow on six capital letters smeared across the torso, as if they had been written with blood: WICKED.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
He could only sit and stare out the window into the rain and blackness, pondering words like Flare and sickness and experiment and Scorch and WICKED.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing wicked
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