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wicked Definition

wicked (wik′id)

adjective

    1. morally bad or wrong; acting or done with evil intent; depraved
    2. vicious; cruel the wicked king
  2. painful, unpleasant, etc. a wicked blow on the head
  3. naughty in a playful way; mischievous
  4. ☆ Slang showing great skill he plays a wicked game of golf

Etymology: ME < wikke, evil, akin to OE wicce, witch

wicked Related Forms
wick′·edly adverb wick′·ed·ness noun
wicked Synonyms

wicked

modif.

  1. Morally evil

    evil, immoral, unethical, corrupt, unprincipled, sinful, bad, base, foul, gross, dissolute, wayward, irreligious, blasphemous, profane, evil-minded, vile, degenerate, depraved, incorrigible, heartless, shameless, degraded, debauched, hard, toughened, disreputable, infamous, indecent, mean, remorseless, reprobate, salacious, iniquitous, scandalous, atrocious, contemptible, nasty, rotten*, low-down*, good-for-nothing*, dirty*. *

    Antonyms good*, virtuous*, pure*. *

  2. Capable of doing great damage

    vicious, fiendish, diabolical, hellish, villainous, rascally, devilish, malevolent, malicious, plotting, conspiratorial, iniquitous, flagrant, nefarious, criminal, heinous, murderous, tricky, sinister, ignoble, monstrous, opprobrious, felonious, dangerous, cutthroat, ratty*, slippery*, crooked*. *

    Antonyms honest*, just*, kind. *

  3. Naughty

    naughty, mischievous, roguish; see naughty.

wicked and evil both connote willful violation of a moral code, but evil often has ominous or malevolent implications an evil hour, and wicked is sometimes weakened in a playful way to mean merely mischievous wicked with; ill, which is slightly weaker than evil in its implications of immorality, is now used chiefly in certain idiomatic phrases ill-gotten gains; naughty today implies mere mischievousness or disobedience a naughty child; bad, in this comparison, is the broadest term, ranging in implication from merely unsatisfactory to utterly depraved

wicked Usage Examples

Object

  • way: Something Wicked This Way Comes What is the origin of the line " Something wicked this way comes " ?

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • do: You can become a celebrity by doing something wicked, mean, bad and nasty.

Modifies a noun

  • stepmother: It's a world of charming rustics, sinister barons and wicked, wicked stepmothers.
  • deflexion: Matt Derbyshire gave Blackburn a second minute lead with a shot that took a wicked deflexion on its way past Wolves keeper Carl Ikeme.
  • witch: They discuss why Megan is the " wicked witch of the West " .
  • uncle: Even wicked uncle Claudius bore more than a slight resemblance to Alan Rickman crossed with Russell Crowe.
  • deed: Do people use to for wicked deeds, or for happy times?
  • husbandman: The parable of the wicked husbandmen ( Mt. xxi.

Modifying Another Word

  • deliciously: A deliciously wicked reply came to mind immediately instead of 5 minutes too late as so often happens.
  • desperately: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • wonderfully: Her vocal powers also include a wonderfully wicked laugh.
  • absolutely: It's also absolutely wicked for ' whooshes ' and special FX and things like that.
  • totally: A totally wicked guide to the USA A holiday in America is a dream come true for most children.
  • truly: Day 4 - Thursday A short drive up into Snowdonia National Park takes us through some truly wicked scenery.

Infinitive complement

  • see: Hope you enjoyed mon night, was wicked to see everyone again!

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Some members of his rogues gallery do not seem so wicked to me: they have always patted my dog in a kindly way.
  • sound: Me 17 and him 40 something have done loads of cycles before and your site makes it sound wicked.
  • look: Posted by: Stuart | November 10, 2003 10:42 AM looking wicked!
  • feel: Men thought mankind wicked because they felt wicked themselves.
  • get: This acapella runs over this track and over Chad Jackson's " Hear the Drummer ( Get Wicked ) " .
wicked Quotes

I know heisa devil, but hehassomethingoftheangel yet undefaced in him, which makes him so charming and agreeable that I must love him, be he never so wicked.

—Etherege, Sir George

All except the best men would rather be called wicked than vulgar.

—Lewis, C(live) S(taples)

Si nolueris habitare cum turpidis, non habitatis Londonie. If you do not want to live among wicked people, do not live in London.

—Richard of Devizes   fl.c.1190

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the L exceedingly.

—Bible (Old Testament)

'We all have flaws,' he said,'and mine is being wicked.'

—Thurber,James Grover

'There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.'

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

—Bible (Old Testament)

As I live, saith the Lord G, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his wayand live: turnye, turnye from yourevil ways; for why will ye die,O house of Israel?

—Bible (Old Testament)

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor†not that men are wicked†but that men know so little of men.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Truly God isgood to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   Search me,O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.

—Austen,Jane

   Lord, remove these exercises from the Sabbath. Any exercise which withdraweth from godliness either upon the Sabbath or on any other day, is wicked and to be forbidden.

—Stubbes, Philip

When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun roseand set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?† What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my country?

—Sitting Bull real name Tatanka Iyotake

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

—Bible (Old Testament)

MissTwye was soaping her breasts in the bath When she heard behind her a meaning laugh And to her amazement she discovered A wicked man in the bathroom cupboard.

—Ewart, Gavin Buchanan

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore they have no shame. They have the power to ask for love because they don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. But we, who have love, and long to mingle it with the love of others: we cannot utter a word.You find that, don't you?

—Shaw, George Bernard

I never saw a brute I hated so; He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

—Browning, Robert