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"wickedness" Definitions
  1. the fact of being morally bad; behaviour that is morally bad
  2. the fact of being attractive although you know something is slightly bad or wrong

131 Sentences With "wickedness"

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Don't let the wickedness of "Milton and Marcus" fool you.
The "Counterpart of sin" in this puzzle is not wickedness.
To push back against that wickedness requires becoming wicked yourself.
We are dealing with wickedness in high places right we now!
The council subsequently denounced John for every wickedness imaginable, including heresy.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
Elva unabashedly embraced wickedness; if only her creators had shown similar gumption.
"It's evil and wickedness for somebody to do something like this," he added.
She later helps arrange a series of events that push Elphaba toward wickedness.
Understanding them as feminist crusaders neither cheapens their struggle nor excuses their wickedness.
But in all free and empty places, there's also room for wickedness to grow.
But while reactionary thought is prone to real wickedness, it also contains real insights.
It means that the wicked have the power to do wickedness as they please.
Books of The Times According to Aristotle, women's voices were proof of their wickedness.
"The wickedness in the world, we just let it perforate the album," Bono said.
Their ever-escalating wickedness makes them disposable, much like every other woman in Blizzard's arsenal.
Are evildoers monstrous psychopaths, or is the capacity for wickedness inherent in every human being?
The second institutional temptation is not toward active wickedness but toward sclerosis, groupthink and stagnation.
Wolves perceived as agents of wicked intention became a stand in for the pioneers' own wickedness.
Experience suggests that the wickedness of the world cannot be driven out simply by erecting high gates.
But nothing could hide the fact that the emperor's sole motivation was still one-note inherent wickedness.
Lisa Bloom tried to turn Weinstein's wickedness into just that kind of "ordinary" that no one challenged.
The world is wicked, and most evil people either choose wickedness or have it thrust upon them.
"This is not wickedness on the part of these countries that want to get cheaper energy," he said.
Given how few people live in the tiny mining outpost of "Goldstone," the abundance of wickedness is astonishing.
A website called Struggle for Hindu Existence carries endless titillating stories about Muslim youths luring Hindu maidens into wickedness.
That is what makes the show so complex and entertaining — you never know whose wickedness is going to prevail.
But who is truly righteous, asks God's attribute of justice, if they cannot prevent wickedness in the first place?
"As long as America continues its wickedness, the Iranian nation will not abandon 'Death to America,' " Khamenei reportedly said.
" He shows, in excruciating detail, how blackness "served as an easily grasped symbol of the Negro's baseness and wickedness.
The book promises to expose the true nature of wickedness by examining the traits shared by history's most heinous.
The play on gender stereotypes results in a fascinating cultural artifice, beyond the biblical tale of wickedness, or unbridled carnality.
"I realized I'm dealing with a whole different set of facts, quite truthfully malice and wickedness," he told state officials.
Did their descendants compound their wickedness, to the point where God decided to drown them all, in a huge flood?
When you wonder if wickedness will go unpunished or injustices will go unaddressed, let this promise gratify your desire for justice.
The footnote explains that the woman symbolizes the "wickedness" of Judah and it is being transported away from the Holy Land.
Is the international community now too timid to face up to apparent resolute wickedness that appears to be showing itself today?
We are all trying to slough off a recent past that makes it harder and harder to ignore our own wickedness.
For being so young and new to understanding the depths of America's wickedness, the weight of the moment wasn't lost on me.
In that song, the hero has been "rougher than timber" for as long as he can remember, and his "wickedness" is renowned.
The Islamic Republic...will not leave this wickedness unanswered and will respond to it at an appropriate time and place, he said.
The Islamic Republic...will not leave this wickedness unanswered and will respond to it at an appropriate time and place, Khamenei said.
In accordance with long misogynist tradition, the film frames this refusal to submit to pregnancy as a five-alarm signifier of wickedness.
The very sound of their voices, it was believed, could sink the state Its pitch and prattle — dangerous — proof of their wickedness.
Nor does the museum espouse the conservative views on the wickedness of homosexuality or abortion that are so prevalent in political evangelical discourse.
In the case of Miracle Creek by Angie Kim, the wickedness is all the lies and cover-ups that follow a tragic accident.
Thackeray also gave her a satisfying streak of nobility, so in spite of her delicious wickedness she also got to be a hero.
There, Cooperman could have just been the height of outrageousness, clicking away and doing villainous things to make people buzz about his wickedness.
But wickedness, at least, is a quality, particularly when it is wedded to political efficacy, personal forcefulness and the appearance of great cunning.
Some of the sessions were organized by Mr. O'Neill, who once compared America's national security establishment to the "wickedness" of the Soviet Union.
Her role is less splashy, less blatantly entertaining than Stone's, whose character gets to pout, harrumph, and slowly unspool her wickedness throughout the movie.
And comic book villains lack the dark distinctions in Milton, whose devils personified specific sins — Satan (pride), Mammon (greed), Belial (wickedness), Moloch (child sacrifice).
But the spell wasn't only about binding Trump, as several witches emphasized: "All those who enable his wickedness," too, were included in the ritual.
Wickedness resides in individuals, in this case the parents whose failures and outright crimes have damaged the innocence of Zucchini and his new friends.
"The rulers of the darkness" and "the spiritual hosts of wickedness" were plainly to be found on the Democratic Party's side of the aisle.
The shingles appear to have grown over the structure like fur, leaving it windowless, and each is dollhouse-scale, pairing connotations of wickedness and innocence.
How, he is asking (in my view) can sophisticated people who know the powers of wickedness also, and often at the same time, practice evil?
As I gleefully claimed my second-place trivia tournament prize, for a brief moment, I lapped up the dull, amoral wickedness of the Cillizza-verse.
In 66 percent, the flood is due to the wickedness of man, and in 57 percent the boat comes to rest on a mountain top.
As they saw it, human wickedness had created an obligation which a just God was bound to call in, and which humanity alone could not discharge.
But I think our society operates under this pervasive Christian fairytale of Adam and Eve that essentially portrays women as the original source of sin and wickedness.
Although most mainstream folks don't speak in those terms anymore, the abhorrent perception of blackness as some kind of harbinger for barbaric wickedness still colors American life.
"Regrettably, the inhumanity of rape is still being perpetrated ... this wickedness must be brought to an end," Sirleaf said in her annual state of the nation address.
"What Leto offers as the Joker is pure Ledger-lite, a heavy dose of antic wickedness ungrounded by anything deeper or more intriguing," the Atlantic's Christopher Orr wrote.
The masses (and the party) like stories in which subordinates are loyal, kindness is rewarded and wickedness punished, and in which young people who work hard can succeed.
Like Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave," it is most powerful when it dwells on the particulars of that crime, on the everyday wickedness of 19th-century slavery.
Strikingly often, culture wars sound like that today: less an appeal to abstract principles than a claim that opponents are—out of naivety or wickedness—exposing innocents to harm.
Seumas Milne, now Labour's head of strategy (and, long ago, a trainee at this newspaper, where he learned of capitalism's wickedness), wrote of the similarities between the two men.
But as far as I can tell, Reuben and Charlie denote a kind of unformed evil through their physical difference, which is a pretty lazy way to denote wickedness.
Rather than luxuriate in the perceived glory of martyrdom like a good Christian film might, it presents Franz Jägerstätter simply as one decent voice in a cacophony of wickedness.
What seems to have got them up and moving is opportunism, deceit, panic, guilt – the furtive battery juices that spark the engine of wickedness that we keep under the hood.
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
And yet the correspondence we encounter in this book lacks the wickedness of gossip, the mean fun of auditing human pettiness and absurdity—so often a natural basis for intimacy.
Nickel was racist as hell—half the people who worked there probably dressed up like the Klan on weekends—but, the way Turner saw it, wickedness went deeper than skin color.
One of the most difficult aspects of being a reporter is that the job often forces you to run toward the wickedness in the world and stare it in the face.
For those of us who do not engage in such objectionable behavior, it is helpful to consider whether Facebook has crossed certain moral "red lines," entering the realm of outright wickedness.
In a way, she reversed the roles as we think of them — subtly — which lent her Odette an earthy sensuality and her Odile a way of camouflaging her wickedness with innocence.
"A source of great concern to me is the spread, in many places, of a climate of wickedness and fury, in which an excessive and depraved hatred is taking root," Francis said.
Or, gentlemen, on the other hand, are there laws in this community to defend you from the immediate abolitionist, who would open upon you the floodgates of such extensive wickedness and mischief?
Atticus keeps fending off the moral demands of his children, especially Jem, by saying that even the most racist of their neighbors have some good essence beneath the rubble of their wickedness.
I also have Pamela Arceneaux's "Guidebooks to Sin," Al Rose's "Storyville, New Orleans," Emily Landau's "Spectacular Wickedness," and Gary Krist's "Empire of Sin," which I reviewed a while back for these pages.
And the fact that it's the shogun's mother, and she's poisoning her own son — there is a thread of wickedness in his work, and that was maybe my first encounter with it.
Among them, Li has railed against what he called the wickedness of homosexuality, feminism and popular music while holding that he is a god-like figure who can levitate and walk through walls.
It had taken years to wrap his head around the country's complicated, tribally based culture, its Ba'ath Party leadership, and the wickedness of Saddam Hussein and his power-sick sons, Uday and Qusay.
At the same time, the word was also a frivolous way of comparing decidedly nongenocidal behavior — like using "whom" correctly or being persnickety about etiquette — to the best-known example of human wickedness.
An elfin brunette, Ms. Hamill doesn't look much like the Becky of the novel, but she pursues Becky's wickedness with delight and without apology, which is to say she's good at being bad.
The Book Review Podcast Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music In Parul Sehgal's recent review of Mary Beard's "Women & Power: A Manifesto," Sehgal writes: According to Aristotle, women's voices were proof of their wickedness.
Traditionally a symbol of cunning and wickedness in German folklore, characterized as the 'big bad wolf' in fairy tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood", wolves disappeared from Germany more than a century ago.
Blaming the wickedness of outsiders for the nation's woes, and trumpeting one's own moral superiority, have become much more fashionable, and that new spirit of the times affects everybody, in high and low places.
Wolves disappeared from Germany a century ago after many were killed, in part because they are symbols of cunning and wickedness in German folklore but also because they attack farm animals and even humans.
The numbers offer a cautionary tale for both emerging-Democratic-majority inevitabilists and for a left whose increasing vehemence about the wickedness of "whiteness" probably encourages the white tribalism that Trump rallied and exploited.
You chose to pursue your wickedness no matter what it cost others and the opposite of what you have done is for me to choose to love sacrificially, no matter what it costs me.
In 21503, Leonardo da Vinci, on the verge of his twenty-fourth birthday, was named as one of four men who had practiced "such wickedness" with the seventeen-year-old apprentice of a local goldsmith.
Unlike most Hollywood movies, it regards racism less as a matter of personal wickedness — though the white characters range from grotesquely bigoted to mostly decent — than as a system of economic plunder and social domination.
To summarize them in less imaginative terms: Chai are the modern Spice Girls who understand the wickedness of capitalism and would rather women be able to ditch their dull day jobs to shred all day!
THERE is a moment in "The Plot Against America", Philip Roth's tale of America succumbing to 1930s-style authoritarianism, when the nine-year-old protagonist experiences a profound revulsion at the foibles on which wickedness thrives.
You could get up to some wickedness in there if you didn't believe in ghosts, but none of the students had arrived at a definite opinion on the matter, so everyone stayed away to be safe.
We'll admire the wickedness of her announcement, just hours later, that she'd be making a solo trip — her farthest and flashiest yet as an official ambassador — to Africa, whose nations the president can't pronounce, let alone respect.
In a world of self-serious drug warriors, Eric Lance brings a gleeful, knowing wickedness to his role as "CIA Bill," the puppetmaster pulling the strings of Los Pepes, as the Escobar kill team took to calling itself.
He had a terrible grip, and was known to hold the boys by the wrist for hours, forcing them to repeat nonsense catechisms and confess to all manner of wickedness they could scarce understand, let alone have committed.
"I am filled with anger and disgust at the persecution of the church by this Communist regime, at the wickedness of their depriving people of the freedoms of religion and of conscience," Wang wrote, according to the statement.
I was delighted by her humor, beauty, wickedness, and candor, as she expressed her delight for certain sexual positions and her frustration with an art market and capitalist economy that continued to devalue her work as a woman.
Instead of treating every returnee like an irredeemable villain, our government should instead encourage them to share their own stories—tales that will not only illuminate the Islamic State's wickedness but also highlight our own society's pluralism and mercy.
In metaphysical terms, says Mr Palmer, Ms Tennant was closer to Pelagius than to Calvin: in other words she refused to believe in man's incorrigible wickedness and felt that humans had the capacity to take action to save themselves.
"All control of the vessel is mine," he declares with a macabre cackle, sounding like he's talking through a mouthful of clotting blood—and The Darkness provides no happy ending, Jackie forever cursed to carry the wickedness with him.
Right behind Vice, The Favourite, a saucy tale of wickedness and sex in Queen Anne's court, and Green Book, a historical look at racism (perhaps too simple a look) in the deep South in 63, both received five nominations.
Liberal Catholics—probably including many of the congregation in Bethesda—tend to be more concerned with social justice than the stringent teachings on personal morality, including the wickedness of abortion and evil of gay marriage, that preoccupy America's leading Catholic clergy.
A Democratic member of Congress is warning of "wickedness in high places" after former national security adviser Michael Flynn offered to speak to congressional investigators probing associated of President Trump and their alleged ties to Russia in exchange for immunity.
"As long as America continues its wickedness, the Iranian nation will not abandon 'Death to America'," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a gathering of Iranian Air Force officers marking the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, according to his official website.
Its relative lack of wickedness—it seems to be mostly free of the misogyny and racism that afflict many other games and gaming communities—makes it more palatable to a broader audience, and this appeal both ameliorates and augments its addictive power.
" The Times's Kevin Roose called this Facebook's "Frankenstein moment," like when Mary Shelley's scientist, Victor Frankenstein, says, "I had been the author of unalterable evils, and I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.
" This evasion caused lively debate, with readers writing comments like, "This is wickedness to a poor, old, harmless cat," and "I am disappointed that the so called joint task force do not have tranquilizers or tasers to use on the Lion than to kill it.
The next day, my friend gave me a Bible, and I read something from the Book of Ezekiel that said if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness, that he's committed and does what is just and right, he can still be saved.
She plays an outlaw, Daisy Domergue, and one slow look that she gives, raising her face, with a black eye and a crinkled grin, to fill the screen, may be the most convincing portrait of wickedness—and of its demonic appeal—in all of Tarantino.
So while there's something inherently satisfying in seeing the gruesome and terrifying befall the people, predominantly men, who deserve it, it's a punishment the witches are not in complete control of; the coven is just a small taste of the wickedness in Redlands's suffocating world.
Ironically, this essay proved its entire point: by the time I came out of the tunnel and was well into my second trimester, I sat down to write this and realized I couldn't quite grasp at the corporal wickedness I'd just spent so many weeks enduring.
" That "her," of course, is Bathsheba, upon whom David spied while she bathed and then contrived to marry by murdering her husband; the result of this wickedness was the future King Solomon, "the next in the line of succession," McCabe notes dryly, "toward Christ our savior.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the defeat of Smiley's relentless adversary, Karla, Mr le Carré has been exploring other juicy themes, including the arms trade, Islamic jihad, the war on terror, the wickedness of pharmaceutical and mining companies in Africa and skulduggery in Latin America.
While the forces of wickedness are difficult to master — especially regarding Detroit's painful history that has left people on both sides of the 8 Mile divide with psychic wounds — it seemed undeniable among trainers and spectators of the match that goodness had prevailed, at least for this day.
The end result is this: persistent mass shootings, persistent gun deaths, persistent helplessness in the face of a problem that has no end in sight—the kind of helplessness that is so deep, so profound, that it leads us back to ancient wickedness for some way to comprehend it.
Gibney Dance hosts a shared program as part of "Work Up," its emerging artist series, featuring Babay L. Angles ("May Malas Sa Loob Pero May Datating Pa," or "There's Been Wickedness Within but Something Else Is Coming"), J. Bouey ("The Space Between Words") and Rourou Ye ("Phantom Duet").
The verse White cited in her tweet, Ephesians 6:12, states: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places," according to the King James version of the Bible.
But it takes a striking combination of wickedness, arrogance and idiocy for Riyadh to think it can get away with a grotesque murder of a well-known and harmless journalist on the soil of a Middle Eastern rival in a consulate the Saudis must have known was either bugged or surveilled.
In his telling, it was a conflict without good guys, an appalling conflagration in which the brutality, cynicism and incompetence of the United States and its South Vietnamese ally were equaled only by the wickedness of their enemies, leaving the hapless bulk of the Vietnamese population to suffer the consequences.
But the events of last week are still a strong reminder that the politics of vilification and the paranoid style work darkly in darkened minds, and that having a president embrace both is simple wickedness, not just the WWE-style game that Trump may believe himself to be playing with his rhetoric.
And this was well before the coronavirus outbreak started, and you came back and wrote a column that I thought was pretty optimistic about the basic stability of Chinese societies, sort of abstracting from moral questions about the obvious wickedness of the regime, you emphasized in the 10 years since you'd last been there the growth of a pretty stable and optimistic middle class.
And this was well before the coronavirus outbreak started, and you came back and wrote a column that I thought was pretty optimistic about the basic stability of Chinese societies, sort of abstracting from moral questions about the obvious wickedness of the regime, you emphasized in the 22009 years since you'd last been there the growth of a pretty stable and optimistic middle class.
Although President Lincoln said in his first inaugural address that "while the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years," the Framers anticipated that the day may come when the actions of a Chief Magistrate would constitute a clear and present danger to the security and survival of the republic.
President Lincoln said in his First Inaugural Address that "while the people retain their virtue and vigilance no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years," but long before his time, the Framers had anticipated that the day would come when the actions of a chief magistrate would constitute a clear and present danger to the republic.
The losers in this equation: Turkey, already groaning under the pressure of millions of Syrian refugees and a crumbling economy; Israel, whose repeated strikes against Iranian targets in Syria have dented but not denied Tehran's ambitions; Europe, which could face yet another refugee crisis even as the effects of the last are felt in the resurgence of the far right; and the Syrian people, terrorized witnesses to the marriage of wickedness and indifference.
And on the most basic level — in the most amateur-hour intro philosophy seminar way — isn't the idea that any one of these institutions (the church, the military, the government, the media, any of them) is meant to give people place and purpose, and to judiciously amplify some virtue in men (strength or kindness or charity), or to bend our collective power toward some common benefit (safety or prosperity), and above all, isn't the idea to blunt wickedness?

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