Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wickedness
IPA transcription: [w'ɪkədnəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
    Meaning: morally objectionable behavior
Usage examples
  • He is really full of wickedness, I think."
  • How can we stem the tide of wickedness among the people?
  • Then Tom fell in a tremble, for he knew his wickedness was discovered.
  • For I am infirm, and such wickedness among this people doth pain my soul.
  • He was merely a good boy, with sufficient wickedness to prove his humanity.
  • Poor little Otto had never dreamed that such cruelty and wickedness could be.
  • The wickedness of a lifetime was somehow or other to be crowded into this day.
  • Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.
  • The fate of the others, whose wickedness has been a part of this story, was not so pleasant.
  • He felt there was a "woe" upon him if he held his peace against the wickedness across the river.