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wickedness
wick·ed W0146300 (wĭk′ĭd)adj. wick·ed·er, wick·ed·est 1. Evil or immoral: "this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred" (Winston S. Churchill).2. Playfully malicious or mischievous: a wicked prank; a critic's wicked wit.3. Severe and distressing: a wicked cough; a wicked gash; wicked driving conditions.4. Highly offensive; obnoxious: a wicked stench.5. Slang Strikingly good, effective, or skillful: a wicked curve ball; a wicked imitation.adv. Slang Used as an intensive: "a ... body suit, which she describes as wicked comfortable" (Nathan Cobb).
[Middle English, alteration of wicke, ultimately from Old English wicca, sorcerer; see witch.]
wick′ed·ly adv.wick′ed·ness n.wick•ed•ness (ˈwɪk ɪd nɪs)
n. 1. the quality or state of being wicked. 2. wicked conduct. 3. a wicked act or thing. [1250–1300] Wickedness show one’s horns To reveal one’s evil intentions; to expose one’s malicious, venomous, or insidious nature. This expression alludes to the horns commonly portrayed on the forehead of Satan, an attribute which also gave rise to one of the devil’s nicknames, Old Hornie. show the cloven hoof To reveal a treacherous nature or evil intentions. The allusion is to the cloven hoof of Satan, long representative of evil. Although the simple term hoof was in use in this figurative sense as early as 1638, the phrase did not appear until much later. [It] had caused him to show the cloven hoof too soon. (James Payn, The Luck of the Darrells, 1885) son of Belial A thoroughly evil and despicable person; the embodiment of wickedness; the devil. This expression originated in the Old Testament (I Samuel 2:12): Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord. Belial, apparently derived from the Hebrew b’li ya’al ‘without use,’ became the equivalent of Satan in later Jewish writings. Belial was also employed as a name for one of the fallen angels in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667). The expression maintains its theological application for the personification of evil. A scoffer, a debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial. (Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery, 1822) Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  wickedness - morally objectionable behavior evil, immorality, iniquityevildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"devilry, deviltry - wicked and cruel behaviorfoul play - unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence)irreverence, violation - a disrespectful actsexual immorality - the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions; "sexual immorality is the major reason for last year's record number of abortions" | | 2. | wickedness - absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"iniquity, dark, darknesscondition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"foulness - disgusting wickedness and immorality; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed" | | 3. |  wickedness - the quality of being wicked nefariousness, vileness, uglinessevilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"filthiness - moral corruption or pollution; "this deformity and filthiness of sin"enormity - the quality of extreme wickedness | | 4. |  wickedness - estrangement from god sin, sinfulnessunrighteousness - failure to adhere to moral principles; "forgave us our sins and cleansed us of all unrighteousness"mark of Cain - the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature | | 5. |  wickedness - the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us"loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, lousinessodiousness, offensiveness, distastefulness - the quality of being offensive |
wickednessnoun evil, wrong, sin, curse, wrongdoing, depravity, immorality, iniquity, badness, viciousness, sinfulness, turpitude, baseness, malignity, heinousness, maleficence moral arguments about the wickedness of nuclear weapons They have sunk to new levels of wickedness.wickednessnoun1. That which is morally bad or objectionable:evil, iniquity, peccancy, sin, wrong.2. Degrading, immoral acts or habits:bestiality, corruption, depravity, flagitiousness, immorality, perversion, turpitude, vice, villainousness, villainy.3. A wicked act or wicked behavior:crime, deviltry, diablerie, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wrong, wrongdoing.Translationswicked (ˈwikid) adjective evil; sinful. He is a wicked man; That was a wicked thing to do. 邪惡的 邪恶的ˈwickedly adverb 邪惡地 邪恶地ˈwickedness noun 邪惡 邪恶IdiomsSeewickedWickedness
WickednessSee also Evil, Villainy.Admah and Zeboyimcities destroyed by God for citizens’ sinfulness. [O.T.: Deuteronomy 19:23]Ahabhonored false gods, usurped others’ land; byword for baseness. [O.T.: I Kings 17:29–34; 21:25]Bluebeardmurders six wives; a personification of wickedness. [Fr. Lit.: Walsh Classical, 58]de Winter, Rebeccataunts her husband with her promiscuity and plots to have him accused of her murder. [Br. Lit.: D. du Maurier Rebecca in Magill I, 806]Jezebelurged husband, Ahab, to evildoing. [O.T.: I Kings 21:25]Manassehidolatrously and murderously leads Jerusalem astray. [O.T.: II Kings 21:2–4, 9]Sodom and Gomorrahcities of iniquity destroyed by God’s wrath. [O.T.: Genesis 19:24]Thornhill, Squireabducts a young woman and has her kind father jailed for debt. [Br. Lit.: Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield]wickedness
Synonyms for wickednessnoun evilSynonyms- evil
- wrong
- sin
- curse
- wrongdoing
- depravity
- immorality
- iniquity
- badness
- viciousness
- sinfulness
- turpitude
- baseness
- malignity
- heinousness
- maleficence
Synonyms for wickednessnoun that which is morally bad or objectionableSynonyms- evil
- iniquity
- peccancy
- sin
- wrong
noun degrading, immoral acts or habitsSynonyms- bestiality
- corruption
- depravity
- flagitiousness
- immorality
- perversion
- turpitude
- vice
- villainousness
- villainy
noun a wicked act or wicked behaviorSynonyms- crime
- deviltry
- diablerie
- evil
- evildoing
- immorality
- iniquity
- misdeed
- offense
- peccancy
- sin
- wrong
- wrongdoing
Synonyms for wickednessnoun morally objectionable behaviorSynonymsRelated Words- evildoing
- transgression
- devilry
- deviltry
- foul play
- irreverence
- violation
- sexual immorality
noun absence of moral or spiritual valuesSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun the quality of being wickedSynonyms- nefariousness
- vileness
- ugliness
Related Words- evilness
- evil
- filthiness
- enormity
noun estrangement from godSynonymsRelated Words- unrighteousness
- mark of Cain
noun the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotionsSynonyms- loathsomeness
- repulsiveness
- sliminess
- vileness
- lousiness
Related Words- odiousness
- offensiveness
- distastefulness
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