How To Use Wickedness In A Sentence

  • 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)
  • I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.
  • They will no doubt receive a stern lecture on the wickedness of their ways.
  • As in wickedness, depravity, corruption? Christianity Today
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  • Don't try to justify his wickedness.
  • I believe that war is in Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty Latin would have us to think, because in war there is little beauty to be seen, but absolutely and simply; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • He reminds them likewise of the wickedness of those that were the patriarchs of their tribes, in envying their brother Joseph, and selling him into Egypt; and the same spirit was still working in them towards Christ and his ministers. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Having entered into a paction with Satan, they did divers acts of wickedness, for which they were tried before Commissioners of The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
  • We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
  • Every past or present Israeli transgression is evidence of its wickedness, whereas Arab ones, if they are acknowledged at all, are “understandable.” Think Progress » Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’ And The U.S. ‘Ought To Be Helping’
  • Blest from above, human nature's wickedness had from below too frequently besulphured and suffumigated him for his memory to be dim; and though he was ever ready to own himself an example that heaven prevaileth, he could cite instances of scandal-mongering shop-women dismissed and working him mischief in the town, which pointed to him in person for a proof that the Powers of Complete Short Works of George Meredith
  • The message was clear - turn from your greed and your wickedness or the whole of the Trinity will be destroyed.
  • It simply needs to be seen in the light of our desperate and unreformable wickedness.
  • But just as it is limited to those who have the God of Shem, that is, who believe, so the curse also is limited to those who abide in the wickedness of Ham. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood
  • This, of course, would be the excess of tyranny and the worst wickedness in government, as has been shown above.a The dangers, then, arising from a polyarchy are more to be guarded against than those arising from a monarchy. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Computer disks and skimpy tight female clothing, the demonic symbols of unblessed sexuality and perverted science, Allah's fires rise up and crush the wickedness, a blazing cleansing heat.
  • Here was another instance of the impunities of wickedness. The Perpetual Curate
  • A practical disbelief of God's omniscience is at the bottom of all the wickedness of the wicked. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • If thou wouldest live long[sentence dictionary],live well;for folly and wickedness shorten life.
  • Wickedness does no go altogether unrequited. 
  • Arise, go to Nineveh and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.
  • The tragic hero's reversal inspires pity if it is due not to wickedness of character but rather to some hamartia, by which Aristotle seems to mean some error in action, sometimes blameworthy and sometimes not.
  • The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad 
  • He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground, a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
  • His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
  • Instead, he railed against the ‘calculated, pre-planned wickedness’ of the boys.
  • So, if a son that is by his father sent about merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a servant, under his master's command transporting a sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the business of the master the author of the servant's damnation: but this is not so: the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of his servant; for they purpose not their death, when they purpose their services. The Life of King Henry V
  • But if we found wickedness in it -- vice, as we rightly call it -- if it became restive, that is, rebellious and self-willed, then we should punish it indeed. The Good News of God
  • Maybe they too are rational rather than irrational, morally disreputable rather than organically abnormal, overwhelmed by adversity rather than by wickedness.
  • The Bible has a lot to say about darkness - about human wickedness and savagery and indifference.
  • During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit.
  • Cameron's college audience in Beijing will know all this stuff just as British kids know about the wickedness of Hitler and the ambitions of Napoleon or Phillip II of Spain – all pluckily thwarted by you know who. David Cameron should not have worn that poppy in China
  • Our frustration and wickedness possibly derives from that fact. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was the wickedness that soaks into your blood and slowly heats up and begins to boil.
  • -- But the poor simple bairn himsell, that had nae mair knowledge of the wickedness of human nature than a calf has of a flesher's gully, he threepit to see the auld hardened bloodshedder, and trysted wi 'him to meet wi' some of the gang at an hour certain that same day, and awa he gaed to keep tryst, but since that hour naebody ever has set een on him. St. Ronan's Well
  • The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad 
  • I used to ‘acknowledge and bewail my manifold sins and wickedness’ every week.
  • Joshua's army, similarly, faced a Canaanite culture verminous in its wickedness and power to corrupt.
  • Then too, even as regards the story, Shakespeare varies from Whetstone much more materially than the latter does from Cinthio: representing the illicit meeting of Claudio and Juliet as taking place under the shield of a solemn betrothment; which very much lessens their fault, as marriage bonds were already upon them; and proportionably heightens Angelo's wickedness, as it brings on him the guilt of making the law responsible for his own arbitrary rigour. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
  • The wild-dog was maturer than Jerry, larger-bodied, and wiser in wickedness; but Jerry was blue-blooded, right-selected, and valiant. CHAPTER III
  • Morality is often rendered impotent by human selfishness, avarice and wickedness. And few people take morality seriously, or are committed to what is morally right, when personal interests are at stake. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • But the historian, being captived to the truth of a foolish world, is many times a terror from well-doing, and an encouragement to unbridled wickedness. English literary criticism
  • We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness... Elizabeth Cunningham: Credo: Community Without Conformity
  • What course will justice take to make those responsible for the villainous wickedness perpetrated on the silent victims pay?
  • He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace. In Old Kentucky
  • But more importantly, he suspected that Heathcliff was hiding his true wickedness under his gentlemanly appearance.
  • The basic wickedness of this Act is that it unashamedly robs people without compensation by the State of their property, often acquired at much sacrifice of hard-earned savings or by instalment, which is, in fact, a form of mortgaging one's future for that property. The Road to Freedom is Via the Cross
  • Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 
  • The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
  • Wherein is contained, how hard a thing it is, to distinguish goodnesse from hypocrisie; and how (under the shadow of holinesse) the wickednesse of one man, may deceive many The Decameron
  • As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
  • No story can parallel the villainy and wickednesses of this man
  • Shakespeare, whose mind was more intent upon notions than words, had in his thoughts the pulchritude of virtue, and the deformity of wickedness; and though he had mentioned _wickedness_, made the correlative answer to _deformity_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • That he would deal with them for the mischief they had done: "Seek out his wickedness; let that be all brought to light which he thought should for ever lie undiscovered; let that be all brought to account which he thought should for ever go unpunished; bring it out till thou find none, that is, till none of his evil deeds remain unreckoned for, none of his evil designs undefeated, and none of his partisans undestroyed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • If thou wouldest live long,live well;for folly and wickedness shorten life.
  • So her heroine begins as the deserted changeling waiting to be rescued, and goes through cycles of wickedness and distraction before finding her destiny.
  • If thou wouldest live long,live well;for folly and wickedness shorten life.
  • I can almost hear the harrumphing complaints that politicians have always spent as much time deploring the wickedness of opponents as praising the virtues of their policies - and so they have.
  • As nothing grieves the saints more than to hear God's name blasphemed, so nothing encourages them more to hope that God will appear against their enemies than when they have arrived at such a pitch of wickedness as to reproach God himself; this fills the measure of their sins apace and hastens their ruin. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • In the story of Rahab, the stock notion of Canaanite wickedness is ironized and radically relativized, if not demolished altogether.
  • Blest from above, human nature's wickedness had from below too frequently besulphured and suffumigated him for his memory to be dim; and though he was ever ready to own himself an example that heaven prevaileth, he could cite instances of scandal-mongering shop-women dismissed and working him mischief in the town, which pointed to him in person for a proof that the Powers of Good and Evil were still engaged in unhappy contention. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Maybe they too are rational rather than irrational, morally disreputable rather than organically abnormal, overwhelmed by adversity rather than by wickedness.
  • They always believe themselves to be in the right, no matter how much wickedness they are mired in.
  • The single gleam of wickedness in his eyes was enough to chill her blood.
  • Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 
  • Well, last night our talk turned on lugubrious subjects, and Mr. Pike, wicked old man that he is, descanted on the wickedness of the world and on the wickedness of the man who had murdered Captain CHAPTER XXIV
  • Wickedness does no go altogether unrequited. 
  • The deceitfulness, that is, the depth of wickedness, and the abominableness, past all words, of thine own heart. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
  • All sense of right and wrong became blurred and a culture of wickedness replaced the old values and traditions.
  • It is an old truth that lack of understanding and sheer stupidity are causing more harm and suffering in the world than wickedness and self-seeking.
  • No type of weak wickedness is more abominable to the proverbialist than that of pert self-conceit, which knows so little that it thinks it knows everything, and is 'as untameable as a fly.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
  • But I denied a 'the haill affair, i' the licht o 'wickedness and thievin' that Mr Crann was castin 'upo' 't. Alec Forbes of Howglen
  • THAT the author of the said work applied himself to his task in malice prepense and with wickedness aforethought; a fact which, your Dedicator contends, is sufficiently demonstrated, by his assuming the name of Quiz, which, your Dedicator submits, denotes a foregone conclusion, and implies an intention of quizzing. Sketches by Boz
  • Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
  • For them, a few idle asides excepted, America and its works amount to nothing but unbridled wickedness, a brief for gunplay, willful stupidity, and closed-mindedness.
  • And when that one saw the other they made great joy of other, and either told other of their adventure, and how the sword failed him at his most need When Mordrains saw the sword he praised it much: But the breaking was not to do but by wickedness of thy selfward, for thou art in some sin. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2
  • So, if a son that is by his father sent about merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a servant, under his master’s command transporting a sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the business of the master the author of the servant’s damnation. Act IV. Scene I. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
  • There is not a word in the English dictionary to really describe this pre-meditated act of evil and wickedness.
  • Why has the world shown me nothing but wickedness, filth, and brutality till now?
  • I caught the newsreader saying, ‘We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness’.
  • Suppose a Man to be suspected for Murder, or for committing a Rape, or the like nefandous Wickedness, if he does freely confess the Accusation, that's ground enough to Condemn him. The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
  • Was ever such wickedness perpetrated on the many by so few?
  • This statement undoubtedly means that the angels are ruled, controlled, and dominated by darkness and wickedness until the judgement day.
  • Righting wrongs and fighting evil, corruption, wickedness and stupidity is just part time work.
  • There is not a word in the English dictionary to really describe this pre-meditated act of evil and wickedness.
  • And human stupidity makes us laugh, whereas human wickedness makes us feel sick, or ashamed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apostle Paul also makes clear, saying: Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, and That ye may be unleavened, not having any leaven (for he calls leaven wickedness), but that ye may be a new dough. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
  • For we see divine retribution revealed from heaven and falling upon all the godless wickedness of men.
  • The conditions of the covenant have been violated by the reservation of spoil from the doomed city; wickedness, emphatically called folly, has been committed in Israel (Ps 14: 1), and dissimulation, with other aggravations of the crime, continues to be practised. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • That they come from within, from the corrupt nature, the carnal mind, the evil treasure in the heart; justly is it said, that the inward part is very wickedness, it must needs be so, when all this comes from within. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness. Chapter 20
  • Yea," said he, "or it might better be said that she is their goddess, their mawmet, their devil, the very heart and soul of their wickedness. The Well at the World's End: a tale
  • And not only the extensity, but the intensity of God's love is made plain by the little adverb "so," — God so loved the world, in spite of its wickedness, that He gave His only begotten The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
  • • Didn't essentialise the awful war crimes of both sides by appealing to their intrinsic wickedness, their religion, their history, their historically-damaged psyche - instead, they have viewed it as an appalling, yet unsurprising, consequence of a long and bitter ethnic conflict. Harry's Place
  • [50] Tears have power to cleanse the wickedness of our heart, and sufferings and affliction are necessary, because through suffering the sinful expansion of the heart is salutarily contracted, and when the heart is thus contracted, tears more easily flow. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
  • Act then, my child, in conformity with justice and duty, regardless of any ulterior object, without considering whether your action will bring you pleasure or pain, without fear of the judgment of men or the envy of the gods, and you will win that peace of mind which distinguishes the wise from the unwise, and may be happy even in adverse circumstances; for the only real evil is the dominion of wickedness, that is to say the unreason which rebels against nature, and the only true happiness consists in the possession of virtue. The Sisters — Volume 3
  • God's justice also is seen in political government, who will have manifest wickednesses to be punished by magistrates; and when they that rule punish not the guilty, God himself wonderfully draws them to punishment, and regularly punishes heinous faults with heinous penalties in this life, as it is said, _He that takes the sword shall perish by the sword_; and, _Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge_. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
  • This may also intimate that such as indulge themselves in gluttony or drunkenness, and by so doing make their own table the table of devils, or keep up fellowship with Satan by a course of known and wilful wickedness, cannot partake truly of the cup and table of the Lord. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • For, as great wickedness before conversion keeps not true penitents from the benefits of God's grace, so neither should it keep professing ones from church-fellowship. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Mordrains saw the sword he praised it much: But the breaking was not to do but by wickedness of thy selfward, for thou art in some sin. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
  • Morality is often rendered impotent by human selfishness, avarice and wickedness. And few people take morality seriously, or are committed to what is morally right, when personal interests are at stake. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Far too few have taken this diabolical wickedness seriously.
  • Gloss: Besides, he does not name Bathsheba, that, by naming Urias, he may recall to memory that great wickedness which she was guilty of towards him. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
  • God imputes to Christ, makes over to Christ, lays upon Christ our iniquity and our sin and our unrighteousness and our wickedness.
  • Lying and unfaithfull; w'd doe things on purpose in contradiction and vexation to her mistress; lye out of the house anights and have contrivances w'th fellows that have been stealing from o'r estate and gett drink out of ye cellar for them; saucy and impudent, as when we have taken her to task for her wickedness she has gone away to complain of cruell usage. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
  • The water burnt him, he hoped it would be hot enough to scorch away his wickedness.
  • Two hundred thousand persons, who, in such an epoch, have understood the wickedness of the struggle for life, the filth of sexual relations, the horror of lyings-in, those are they who save the honour of the country," he thought. En Route
  • Paul neither gives motivation for these sins nor offers a hierarchy of them: ‘all ungodliness and wickedness’.
  • he would exclaim, ‘what wild visions of prodigies of wickedness, want and beggary, arose in my mind of that place!’
  • But you know it will all return, with more intensity, more wickedness and more irreverence - and so will you.
  • If chemists have identified substances that have fallen in Europe as sand from African deserts, swept up in African whirlwinds, that's assuasive to all the irritations that occur to those cloistered minds that must repose in the concept of a snug, isolated, little world, free from contact with cosmic wickednesses, safe from stellar guile, undisturbed by inter-planetary prowlings and invasions. The Book of the Damned
  • The devilishness, the wickedness, and, above all, the pitch of glaring hatred with which the man eyed me and addressed me, were most unpleasant. CHAPTER XIV
  • I actually intended “enormity” in this post to evoke primarily a sense of size and then to also take advantage of the secondary meaning to suggest that the proscription is bad; it’s easier to replace the word with “immensity” than with “wickedness” in my sentence. Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar
  • Reply Obj. 3: The accuser deserves the punishment of retaliation in compensation for the harm he attempts to inflict on his neighbor: but the punishment of disgrace is due to him for his wickedness in accusing another man calumniously. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • The addition of "slothful" is to mark the precise nature of his wickedness: it consisted, it seems, not in his doing anything against, but simply nothing for his master. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • But there was more to the crime than the wickedness of two cruel women.
  • But truly, the rebellion and insubjection against the truth of God is more generally practised, even by the multitude of men though in an unfree, hidden way, how few do believe their own desperate wickedness, though God hath testified it of man? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Like most other things, the "Agapemone" wickedness, which has recently disgusted all decent people, does not appear to be a new thing by any means. Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850
  • He smiles graciously when we meet, but with all we hear about the wickedness of the French, Grammont has shown me greater respect than I have had from any one of the so-called gallants about the court. The Touchstone of Fortune
  • [_The rampant unrestraint, which is the characteristic of wickedness_.] "Good," said Sibyl, quietly; "and I too. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
  • Righting wrongs and fighting evil, corruption, wickedness and stupidity is just part time work.
  • We sincerely trust to hear that Butler has been superseded; but certain laboured attempts which have been made to explain away some of the wickedness of his ferocious edict do not seem to point in the desirable direction. London, Saturday, June 21, 1862
  • It is not the result of the wickedness or follies of the Gentiles which we call anti-Semitism. The Chosen Peoples
  • Evidently because in his heart the subcelestial spirits of evil are working, instigating men to every wickedness, and breathing evil and destruction upon all and everything. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
  • Pulchre's bell_, the great bell of St. Sepulchre's Holborn, close to Newgate, always begins to toll a little before the hour of execution, under the bequest of Richard Dove, who directed that an exhortation should be made to "... prisoners that are within, Who for wickedness and sin are appointed to die, Give ear unto this passing bell. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
  • Winthrop, as well as in the records of the colonies, evidence which shows that the streams of wickedness in New England were "dammed" and not dried up. England in America, 1580-1652
  • Indeed, there are few acts of comparable deliberate and indiscriminate wickedness in human history.
  • Bible A personification of wickedness and ungodliness alluded to in the Old and New Testaments.
  • [1324] For the leader of all wickedness assumes manifold [1325] forms, beguiler of men as he is, inconsistent, and even contradicting himself, projecting one course and then following another. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • The prose of Flaubert, the imagery of Baudelaire, the harmonies of Wagner, Scruton points out, have all been accused of immorality, by those who believe that they paint wickedness in alluring colors. Roger Scruton on Beauty
  • His nature was an unnatural mixture of folly and wickedness. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • Blest from above, human nature's wickedness had from below too frequently besulphured and suffumigated him for his memory to be dim; and though he was ever ready to own himself an example that heaven prevaileth, he could cite instances of scandalmongering shop - women dismissed and working him mischief in the town, which pointed to him in person for a proof that the Powers of Good and Evil were still engaged in unhappy contention. The House on the Beach
  • Accidents usually happen as a result of human failings as much as wickedness.
  • The legal scrupulosity with which the Normans pursued wickedness could be turned against them.
  • They constitute fleshpots and dens of wickedness which should be eschewed for the sake of your soul.
  • The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad 
  • Jonathan Homer of Newton, who was, to look upon, a kind of expurgated, reduced and Americanized copy of Voltaire, but very unlike him in wickedness or wit. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
  • Our human minds are slow to understand the awful wickedness of idol worship.
  • It scared her the way she would crave that darkness, the wickedness, the evil forces.
  • To be cognizant of these, and yet to feel that, as there was no actual wickedness going on, she was not justified in "blabbing," was a severe and perpetual trial to Elizabeth. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
  • But the poor simple bairn himsell, that had nae mair knowledge of the wickedness of human nature than a calf has of a flesher’s gully, he threepit to see the auld hardened bloodshedder, and trysted wi’ him to meet wi’ some of the gang at an hour certain that same day, and awa he gaed to keep tryst, but since that hour naebody ever has set een on him. — Saint Ronan's Well
  • Diaghilev celebrates the pure, youthful love of a shepherd and shepherdess that triumphs over the wickedness of pirates who kidnap Chloe and the seduction of Daphnis by worldly older woman, Lykanion.
  • Wickedness does no go altogether unrequited. 
  • [The rampant unrestraint, which is the characteristic of wickedness.] “Good,” said Sybil, quietly; “and I too.” Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life
  • Our frustration and wickedness possibly derives from that fact. Times, Sunday Times
  • And now, if we think that the injured goodness of God could, after all this, satisfy itself with bare complaints, we may conclude, that it had something else to complain of besides their wickedness, even his own justice; which was too far concerned to put up such provocations, without much another kind of revenging the injuries done to his abused mercy. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
  • We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness.
  • Larry in these injured moods felt vague possibilities of wickedness within him, -- justified errancies .... Together
  • The audience seemed to be having a hard time taking his wickedness seriously; his shiftiest moments elicited laughs. Dial R For Remake
  • Opes (says Ovid) irritamenta malorum, (riches are the incentive to every kind of wickedness,) which is corroborated by the old Italian proverb dove l'oro parla, ogni lingua tace, and the latin maxim auro loqueote nihil pollet quoevis atio, (the substance of both of which is gold silences reason. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
  • There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good.
  • Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 
  • His servant for the sake of His name should go unpunished; but quickly did he bring on them his deserved wrath, inasmuch as for the wickedness of them who dwelt therein the Lord converted their fruitful land into a salt marsh; and the sea, with the foreflowing of an unwonted tide, covered it, and, that it might even for ever be unhabitable, changed the dry land into a plashy lake. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
  • There are still plenty of people who use the Craft, as Masons like to call their oddball institution, as the perfect inkblot onto which they can project their fantasies of organized wickedness, whatever those happen to be. Energy Bulletin -
  • The rainbow should also cause us to realise that God will not continually tolerate wickedness and ungodliness upon the earth.
  • One great cause of all the wickedness, and violence, and looseness, that is upon the earth, is, they do not believe that God is near them and stands by them. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07.
  • To 'amputate' such wickedness for the future, the letter last preceding has been addressed to the Senate; and the 'Possessores sive curiales' are now invited to state their grievances fully and frankly, or else ever after hold their peace and cultivate a habit of patience. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
  • Party fealty is praised as a virtue, and disloyalty to party is treated as a species of incivism next in wickedness to treason. Literature and Life (Complete)
  • You have won a place in this world, but remember, the last to hold it was filled with wickedness and evil.
  • His tale is an attack on the wickedness of summoners.
  • It is comforting to perceive that this wickedness on the part of the sevenpenny reprint cannot indefinitely continue. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
  • It is time for goodness and Godliness to triumph once more over wickedness and evil.
  • Hath he said he will not drown it, notwithstanding any interposal of sin, wickedness, or rebellion whatsoever? The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • All that acknowledging and bewailing of the manifold sins of wickedness made this extended act of contrition a bit of a downer.
  • Judges, whereupon the wickednesse of the Servant, and, the treason of the stepdame was plainely discovered, and the verity of the matter revealed, whereby the woman was perpetually exiled, the Servant hanged on a Gallowes, and the Physitian had the Crownes, which was prepared to buy the poyson. The Golden Asse
  • Our frustration and wickedness possibly derives from that fact. Times, Sunday Times
  • I believe that war is in Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty Latin would have us to think, because in war there is little beauty to be seen, but absolutely and simply; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

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