How to Use wickedness in a Sentence

wickedness

noun
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  • Money for food mostly fed the habit, the front door a gateway to wickedness.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2018
  • But Cuban’s reform does square with the Times’ take on virtue and wickedness at Twitter.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • For instance, the Witch first dons dark green and black to symbolize her wickedness.
    — Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • But wickedness brought on by panic can be swept away by other breezes.
    — Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Did their descendants compound their wickedness, to the point where God decided to drown them all, in a huge flood?
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • To honor the death and resurrection of his Lord and Savior, no movies, no fleshly wickedness and not much booze.
    — Matthew Avery Sutton, Time, 24 Sep. 2019
  • But the prophet said Zion was somewhere else, that wickedness would soon spill over the mountains, and Barlow watched from above as God's kingdom crumbled.
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?
    — Jackie Frere, Woman's Day, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The third act puts it on a different plane, with wickedness punished and virtue rewarded.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
  • In reality sin is the root cause of all wickedness and injustice.
    — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The Death of Stalin paints Beria in all his wickedness, scoring dark laughs every time the character opens his mouth.
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 15 Mar. 2018
  • These conflict colors present feelings of naivete and wickedness.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 3 June 2021
  • The world cannot forget the particular wickedness of the atrocities.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Acts of unbroken earnestness, like those of unrelieved wickedness, are dull to watch and boring to talk about.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Turn thy attention away from the pelvic region, where wickedness resides.
    — Kira Garcia, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2017
  • That’s a level of wickedness that no Colt-toting cowboy could have ever imagined.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Scorpion plays as a series of parables about the wickedness of modern life and its signal sins of greed, vanity, and pride.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 July 2018
  • Only wickedness could describe the idea that these bills were necessary in order to protect children, when the truth was that children were harmed even by the attempt to pass them.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The cream is luxurious, the espresso energizing; and the bourbon adds just a little touch of wickedness.
    — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
  • One pines for the days when wickedness took the plump and tangible form of a man named Goldfinger, whose only digital ambition was to get his fingers on gold.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
  • This element of the series was often too on the nose, and much less compelling than the random displays of immorality and wickedness that make the Ushers rotten to the core.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • To push back against that wickedness requires becoming wicked yourself.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 22 June 2018
  • Of course, whitewashing the horrors of slavery won’t do, either, and director Barry Jenkins doesn’t try to skirt the wickedness.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • God was grieved to his heart, Genesis declares, over the violent wickedness of his human creatures.
    — N.t. Wright, Time, 29 Mar. 2020
  • This new production of Saint Joan is a splendid attack on that enduring wickedness.
    — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • But there is also a kind of understanding being telegraphed, across generations, of the woes and wickedness that Black women will be forced to wrestle with over the course of their lives.
    — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Humankind’s wickedness brings on the impending apocalypse, which in this case includes an actual flood, when the broken pipes fill the house with water.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Sep. 2017
  • That gorgeous, soulful voice is back, and—as ever—Hibbert sings songs of struggle, of righteousness amidst wickedness, that seem to be written for our time.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2020

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