wickedness

Example Sentences

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The survivors said it sends a message that the state isn’t serious about stopping the kind of wickedness that led to the massacre.

From Washington Times

That kind of speechifying echoes the strongman rhetoric favored by fascist dictators, but it also has an Old Testament resonance; the vengeful, God-anointed king raised up to battle the forces of worldly wickedness.

From Seattle Times

Her “wickedness” after being denied a piece of a luxurious zuppa inglese cake results in a testament to her inherent virtue.

From Los Angeles Times

Once "triggering the liberals" became the main political goal, gleeful wickedness became inevitable.

From Salon

Baudelaire's Poe valued beauty over truth in his poetry and, in his fiction, saw through the self-improvement pieties that were popular at the time to reveal "the natural wickedness of man."

From Salon