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BNC: 15372 COCA: 21506

— wickedness

noun, old-fashioned [noncount]
BNC: 15372 COCA: 21506

wickedness

noun

wick·​ed·​ness ˈwi-kəd-nəs How to pronounce wickedness (audio)
1
: the quality or state of being wicked
2
: something wicked

Example Sentences

a couple of live wires who got into all kinds of wickedness during their vacation in Las Vegas the movie featured a villain of unadulterated wickedness
Recent Examples on the Web People often associated facial irregularities with the devastating effects of disease, such as leprosy or syphilis, or with corporal punishment, wickedness and sin. Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022 And there is precedent in Hanks’ career for both Parker’s over-the-top wickedness and Luhrmann’s prosthetic-laden artifice. Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022 That wickedness included mass starvations, slave-labor camps, political oppression, purges and executions, religious persecution and the subjugation of satellite nations that even now struggle to pull themselves from Russia’s malicious orbit. Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022 For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Jackie Frere, Woman's Day, 14 Apr. 2022 Chomsky’s mendacity does not, in Harris’s opinion, stem from wickedness. Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 What such a list fails to capture, however, is the energy of Hitchens’s prose, the breadth of his allusions, and the wickedness of his wit. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 26 Dec. 2021 Green in general has a reputation for being hard-to-wear, which is probably due in part to its history as a colour of wickedness, witches, sin, and ghosts. Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2021 In politics, communicating meaning is essential to persuasion, to the building of coalitions, and to the defeat of error and wickedness. Dan Mclaughlin, National Review, 15 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of wickedness was in the 14th century
BNC: 15372 COCA: 21506

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