wicked

"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

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

Attorney General Peter Neronha calls it “willful, reckless, or wicked, as amounted to criminality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Ann Blyth, who was nominated for an Academy Award for playing the wicked, manipulative daughter in the 1945 noir melodrama “Mildred Pierce,” has died at age 98.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

I made a vow right then and there, before sweet-tempered Lucky Pete and my Heavenly Maker, that I would do everything in my power to stop wicked little Flora Maroney before it was too late.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

Seems like I jes’ want to talk along rambling like, and tell you how happy you are all, for I don’t reckon you’re much wickeder than you are friendly on the average.

From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

My little fairies are all skipping in ecstacy; while the wickeder imps are making faces and wry mouths, not to see mischief enough in the wind to afford them a supper!

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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

But Delta is by no means the wickedest variant out there.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2021

Watching scenes of Kingsley not being listened to, or overlooked, or talked to with the wickedest of tongues, it’s impossible to disagree.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2020

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