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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

... forward, shaking her head disapprovingly. "I have a note from Lucas," she said. "It arrived a quarter of an hour ago, but there was no answer, so I thought it would be real wicked to wake you ...

— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell

... glanced proudly at Philip. "You will collect the debt, cousin," said he, and the smile on his face was wicked as he again ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... disposition of our souls. The dash of a despot's pen, or a foolish act passed in Parliament, which might appear to have no personal application to any one, may exert a secret and invisible influence, that, in one single generation, will make a whole people wicked in ...

— The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid

... on the evening of the arrest, the marquise had a long pin and tried to put it in her mouth; that he stopped her, and told her that she was very wicked; that he perceived that people said the truth and that she had poisoned all her family; to which she replied, that if she had, it was only through following bad advice, and that one could not always ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... purged of the offensive and extraordinary matters." In the reign of Charles II. the University of Oxford ordered Buchanan's De jure regni, together with certain other works, to be publicly burnt on account of certain obnoxious propositions deducible from them; such as "Wicked kings and tyrants ought to be put to death." He published a paraphrase of the Psalms of David in verse, which has been much praised. The Jesuits were not very friendly critics of our author, for they asserted that Buchanan showed in his life little ...

— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield

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