wickedness
Example Sentences
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To Assad, a member of the department, its purpose is “to get justice, help put things right for victims, and keep the wickedness of the world at bay.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
They all have a reason for the wickedness that they do.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2026
I looked back on core memories in my life that I had viewed as me being an indication of my weakness, my wickedness, my deal with the devil, so to speak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
An independent review led by Richard Horwell QC, published in July 2017, concluded that: "It is human failings that brought about the collapse of the trial, not wickedness."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
If it were not so, the wickedness of the powerful or the folly of the wise would long ago have sought to change what cannot be changed, and Equilibrium would fail.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
