wickedness

Example Sentences

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Fishing, summed up Hoover, "reduces our egotism, soothes our troubles and shames all of our wickednesses."

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah! they ain't properly brought up there," said Miss Jerusha, shaking her head; "it's nothin' but boardin' schools, and beaus, and theaters, and other wickednesses there; 'tain't ekil to the country noways.

From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes

A simple country lad that doth see no guile, knowing not of man's manifold wickednesses.

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert

Even Catharine might never bemoan his wickednesses to her husband.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)

The innocent building-ground and nefarious plottings against unpopular authority had given place to restaurants and more subtle wickednesses.

From The Dark House by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)