wickedness

Example Sentences

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They all have a reason for the wickedness that they do.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

Hutton appeared before Belfast Magistrates' Court for sentencing on Thursday, where District Judge Francis Rafferty described her act as one of "abject wickedness".

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

So when you’re no longer looking at yourself through that lens of wickedness, passion and all the things that I thought were negative, now I can see how they affected me.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

In the book Baum merely set her wickedness as antipodal to Dorothy Gale’s pluck and goodness.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2024

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes—a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison