wickedness

Example Sentences

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Playing a 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

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 clear our evidence showed that this defendant had that wickedness of disposition that she had made these plans,” First Assistant District Attorney Jen Schorn said after the hearing.

From Washington Times • Dec. 25, 2023

For a boy just turning seventeen, she maintained, the important thing was to keep him sequestered from “the wickedness of the state university.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik