wicked
Usage
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Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Ill now appears mainly in certain fixed expressions, with a milder implication than that in evil: ill will; ill-natured. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits.
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“DJing’s not about playing wicked records. It’s about playing wicked records on a system,” said Sam Shepherd, who performs under the name Floating Points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The wicked Navier-Stokes problem had vexed mathematicians for nearly a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
"I really rate Andy Burnham for what he's done with Manchester. I think he's wicked," said McCulloch, 22.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
A potter’s son, this man lived a wicked life at every stage of his career.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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
Her husband suspected him—and he felt wickeder than ever....
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
No; Sir Massingberd was alive, and would turn up some day or other, wickeder than ever.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
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
In the blackness of the eternal night, all the wickedest creatures—the trolls and banshees and ogres—have driven the good creatures into hiding.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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