wickedness

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Wickedness sounds so medieval, so Grimm’s—a throwback to the era of Macbeth, in fact—but it remains a subject of serious debate among sophisticated contemporary moral philosophers such as Mary Midgely and John Hick.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2013

"Wickedness was like food," they found, "once you got started it was hard to stop."

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012

Nothing could be more wackily multifocal than The Tents of Wickedness, a story told through a sequence of parodies of other writers, among them Marquand, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Proust, Joyce and Kafka.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wickedness is here used in the concrete sense = the wicked ones, the sons of wickedness, Deut. xiii.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

"Wickedness and conceit disturb your reason," Gabrielle replied, with a calm which increased his fury.

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis