wicked

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It is wicked--wicked, and you should not heed them The tears burst from her eyes, to her husband's undisguised astonishment.

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  1. adjective Evil by nature and in practice: "this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred” (Winston S. Churchill).
  2. adjective Playfully malicious or mischievous: a wicked prank; a critic's wicked wit.
  3. adjective Severe and distressing: a wicked cough; a wicked gash; wicked driving conditions.

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  • The only weapon which he would use against the wicked was the holiness of a life so full of love as to enlighten and revive those about him, and compel them - 46 - to love. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • Glad to hear himself praised, the foolish Cock came down, and the Fox caught him, and ate him in a moment The praise of the wicked is always dangerous Illustration THE GIANT AND THE DWARF A Dwarf one day met a Giant. —  Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables Amusement for Good Little Children
  • The figures of the elect, loving, ecstatic and beautiful, clad in flame-coloured robes, with stars and flowers, as in similar compositions by Fra Angelico, are absolutely sublime, while those of the wicked are almost childish, especially the demons with faces of cats and jackals, with red eyes and mouths, black bodies and clawed feet. —  Fra Angelico
  • The Doctor also advised him of the delusion of the poor girl with respect to Madame Arles, and how he had considered it unwise to attempt any explanation until he should hear further from Mr. Maverick, whose recent letter he counted it his duty to lay before Mr. Elderkin It's a sad business," said he And the Doctor, "_The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
  • 215 Whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways, though their principles may have made no impression upon him; just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern, he would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating liquor Sa’dī. —  Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources
 

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  1. Middle English, alteration of wicke, ultimately from Old English wicca, sorcerer; see witch.

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  1. from Middle English wicked, wikked, wikkid, wykked, wykkyd, evil, bad, from wick, wicke, wikke, bad, + -ed, as if past participle of a verb *wikken, render evil or witch-like: see wickand witch.
  2. from wick + -ed, here merely an adjective extension.
 

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