wickedness

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

From then on, there was no rest for Joan, a performer whose unsparing wickedness earned her praise, loyalty and loathing.

From Salon • May 14, 2025

So when you’re no longer looking at yourself through that lens of wickedness, passion and all the things that I thought were negative, now I can see how they affected me.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

"It's like playing Cluedo, but being live playing it, and the wickedness," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

Kingshaw thought, you should have been dead, you should have, it would be all right now, if you were dead, and then broke out into a cold sweat, at his own wickedness.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill