wickedness

Example Sentences

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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

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

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

Whatever supernatural elements we thought we saw may have been an extension of Rust and Marty Hart’s absorption into the disconcerting wickedness corrupting everything, or just distracting woo-woo.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2024

She was the daughter of Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who had been changed into a wolf because of his wickedness.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton