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She called Rose "an author of her own wrongdoing" and said her false report to police had been "vengeful and wicked".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Though Neill had more than a lifetime’s experience playing characters who were solely benevolent or entirely wicked, he was remarkably adept at navigating the journey back and forth between these two polarities.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

As he seeks her in the present day, he is tasked with hunting wicked supernatural creatures for the Afterlife Immigration Office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The first came on a wicked pass from teammate Michael Olise, a running Mbappé slipping past the defense and carving a shot past goalie Édouard Mendy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

I didn’t ask any questions, of course, but I felt so sorry for them and was rather glad I hadn’t any wild brothers to do wicked things and disgrace the family.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

So here are deviled eggs, made wickeder by breading and deep-frying the whites, crunchy veneer giving way to wobble.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

Think of this book as a typical English-village mystery with a wickeder sting.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2010

That is Day-Lewis' goal and gift: to be so true to his characters that they need never be sentimentalized, made to seem finer, grander, wickeder or more appealing.

From Time Magazine Archive

When at length he did decide, you would have said no wilder or wickeder scheme could have entered his brain.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

There may be wickeder streets somewhere in the East than the Jalan Tiga, but I do not recall having seen them.

From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Both characters are deeply, deeply decent people with an instinct towards caretaking and compassion, with an underlying, usually unspoken assumption that, if they’re kind enough, even the wickedest of foes will be disarmed.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2021

It earned Port Royal the epithet of “the richest and wickedest city in the world”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016

And she saves her wickedest material for condescending Southern liberals determined to help their unfortunate neighbors.

From Washington Post ● May 12, 2015

Miss Throckmorton used to tell us that people who carve things on trees are the wickedest sorts of vandals 'cause they're not only making graffiti, they're hurting living beings too.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell