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Wicked

adjective

Morally bad in principle or practice.

Having committed unrighteous acts. Synonyms: sinful, unholy.

Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality. Synonyms: severe, terrible. "A severe case of flu" , "A terrible cough" , "Under wicked fire from the enemy's guns" , "A wicked cough"

Naughtily or annoyingly playful. Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish. "A wicked prank"

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, yucky. "Distasteful language" , "A loathsome disease" , "The idea of eating meat is repellent to me" , "Revolting food" , "A wicked stench"

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"Wicked" Quotes from Famous Books

... that may spread; but then all human learning and controversy in religious points must remove out of the world, yea the Bible itself; for that ofttimes relates blasphemy not nicely, it describes the carnal sense of wicked men not unelegantly, it brings in holiest men passionately murmuring against Providence through all the arguments of Epicurus: in other great disputes it answers dubiously and darkly to the common reader. And ask a Talmudist ...

— Areopagitica - A Speech For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing To The - Parliament Of England • John Milton

... cousin, and you oughtn't, you know. If it isn't wicked, it MUST be naughty to call her ...

— Princess Polly's Playmates • Amy Brooks

... deceived me so—so bitterly deceived me! You persuaded me that my father was not my father—allowed me to live on in ignorance of the truth for years; and then when he, my warm-hearted real father, came to find me, cruelly sent him away with a wicked invention of my death, which nearly broke his heart. O how can I love as I once did a man who has served ...

— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy

... endure the heat of the cooking-stove in the kitchen. As to a fire in the parlour there is not much need of it, as I am glad to sit at the open door and enjoy the lake-breeze. The insects are already beginning to be troublesome, particularly the black flies—a wicked-looking fly, with black body and white legs and wings; you do not feel their bite for a few minutes, but are made aware of it by a stream of blood flowing from the wound; after a few hours the part ...

— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill

... beast," says Muller, "of prodigious strength, and false and wicked to the last degree. If any one approached he rose up slowly with a low growl, fixed his eyes in the direction in which he meant to make his attack, slowly passed his hand between the bars of his cage, and then extending his long arm, gave a sudden grip—usually at ...

— Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature • Thomas H. Huxley

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