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

Let all the People hear and fear, and let no more any such Wickedness be done as has produced this woeful Spectacle.

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye

Wickedness is a thing of your own heart.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)