How to Use wickedness in a Sentence

wickedness

noun
  • But wickedness brought on by panic can be swept away by other breezes.
    — Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Money for food mostly fed the habit, the front door a gateway to wickedness.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2018
  • These conflict colors present feelings of naivete and wickedness.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 3 June 2021
  • For instance, the Witch first dons dark green and black to symbolize her wickedness.
    — Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Besides, Chrishell should be glad that Nicole’s wickedness is so blatant.
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Turn thy attention away from the pelvic region, where wickedness resides.
    — Kira Garcia, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2017
  • To push back against that wickedness requires becoming wicked yourself.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 22 June 2018
  • 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
  • Jew haters have long alleged the wickedness of Israel and its ties with powerful elites across the world.
    — Michael S. Roth, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But Cuban’s reform does square with the Times’ take on virtue and wickedness at Twitter.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Acts of unbroken earnestness, like those of unrelieved wickedness, are dull to watch and boring to talk about.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • That’s a level of wickedness that no Colt-toting cowboy could have ever imagined.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • The world cannot forget the particular wickedness of the atrocities.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Good is not assured victory over evil in Shakespeare, though wickedness sets in motion those forces that will hasten the end of its ride.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • An opinion offered offhand suggests a secret wickedness that must be exorcised.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
  • God was grieved to his heart, Genesis declares, over the violent wickedness of his human creatures.
    — N.t. Wright, Time, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Evil cripples represent a form of karmic punishment for the character’s wickedness.
    — Magda Romanska, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • This new production of Saint Joan is a splendid attack on that enduring wickedness.
    — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Stressful situations spark all our wickedness, the tragedy was just the final punch that taught our characters a deadly lesson.
    — Jd Linville, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then as an act of jealous hazing, Glinda gifts Elphaba the pointed hat and perhaps that is the birth of wickedness.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
  • 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 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
  • But despite this being the internet, there’s no wickedness being thrust around — everyone’s taking the chance to get in on a memeless rollout.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025

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