wickedness

Example Sentences

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Playing a childless, vain, pitch-perfect vision of Los Angeles’ wickedness in “Maps to the Stars,” Julianne Moore mothered so hard she almost separated California right down the San Andreas fault line.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

They all have a reason for the wickedness that they do.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

I looked back on core memories in my life that I had viewed as me being an indication of my weakness, my wickedness, my deal with the devil, so to speak.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

An independent review led by Richard Horwell QC, published in July 2017, concluded that: "It is human failings that brought about the collapse of the trial, not wickedness."

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

No such anguish had Shelob ever known, or dreamed of knowing, in all her long world of wickedness.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien