wicked

There has been no more satisfying slap in cinema this year than the one Erika lands on a smug German actor, leading to a wicked punchline that shouldn’t be spoiled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Police had fingerprint evidence linking a high-profile councillor to a poison pen letter up to 12 months before he went on to target another politician in a "persistent and wicked" hate mail campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

While Igbokwe added that Hargitay has “a wicked sense of humor,” it would be a shock to hear the “SVU” star do anything resembling a roast or zingers in the vein of Rivers or Sykes.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Combining wicked satire with genuine hope, Randy Boyagoda’s latest novel takes on the financial, moral and cultural crises plaguing modern academia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“You have a wicked mind, little Nhamo,” said the dry, old voice.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

For nothing shows a wickeder heart than being willing to involve another, and especially one’s own child, in a lifelong sorrow in order to gratify some feeling of one’s own.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

I'm always wickeder in the morning than at night, because I'm fresh; so I'll try, this morning, to relieve your mind about the peacocks.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington

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 a journalist who visited the area during construction had a different name for it: “the wickedest city in America.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 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

She had the wickedest smile he'd ever seen on a woman.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin