[
US
/ˈwɪkəd/
]
ADJECTIVE
- morally bad in principle or practice
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naughtily or annoyingly playful
teasing and worrying with impish laughter
a wicked prank -
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
a disgusting smell
a loathsome disease
revolting food
a wicked stench
distasteful language
the idea of eating meat is repellent to me -
intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
a terrible cough
severe pain
under wicked fire from the enemy's guns
a wicked cough
a severe case of flu -
having committed unrighteous acts
a sinful person
How To Use wicked In A Sentence
- Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother. Times, Sunday Times
- We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
- It was an instance of the great wickedness of the Jews that they were thus enraged; and this in Deuteronomy is the matter of a threatening. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- He has become one of the most wicked on a continent that has seen more than its fair share.
- I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.
- Political bias - raw and wicked - blights American newspapers and TV news.
- They suppose that all rich men are wicked.
- Blondel's smile widened into a wicked grin.
- Is she a wicked witch or a beloved'alternative' voice? Times, Sunday Times
- For this cause also God has banished from His presence him who did of his own accord stealthily sow the tares, that is, him who brought about the transgression; [4433] but He took compassion upon man, who, through want of care no doubt, but still wickedly [on the part of another], became involved in disobedience; and ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
