wickedness
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5.2
- noun
- /ˈwɪkɪdnəs/
:
maldad
- The novel explores the depths of human wickedness through its complex characters.
- wickedness and evil
- human wickedness
- wickedness of man
Moral goodness has no connection at all with wickedness.
- Moral goodness has no connection at all with wickedness.
- That's what you will find a mastery, literally a mastery of wickedness.
- Everywhere I look, I see wickedness, evil, you know, just like division.
- What they don't have is the notion of, of the wickedness that is, is within and requires forgiveness.
- And and I'm like, man, we we look at like wickedness is what are the things you're doing wrong?
- This is sort of like one way to understand it is God's dream and wickedness and and goodness is, is is stuff that labels that the thinking mind imposes on it.
Examples
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Do you renounce the spiritual forces of wickedness, reject the evil power of this world, and repent of your sin?
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If you would live Long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Everywhere I look, I see wickedness, evil, you know, just like division.
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We had gone too long without a reminder of our wickedness.
Academic text (2011) -
He has so much wickedness in him.
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He showed you the wickedness of man and knew you would not look away.
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We are cursed with a wickedness!
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It is full of wickedness.
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She's paying for her wickedness.
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Jerusalem Bible: Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
∞
3.0
Bad actions or a force that harms people
244
6.3
A state where people act in evil or harmful ways
25
8.8
A state of very bad moral behavior
23
6.3
Bad behavior that people see as wrong or evil
21
9.5
Very bad or unfair actions that harm people
20
4.6
A quality of being morally bad or cruel
16
8.1
Very bad actions that hurt other people
9
8.9
Great evil that shocks people
8
6.5
A quality of doing very bad things and wanting to harm people
6
6.8
A state of being not accepted by society or by moral standards
4
7.5
Being separated from God or doing what religion says is wrong
2
8.0
Very bad and morally wrong behavior
1
7.4
Something that is not right according to law or morals
1
7.9
Very bad and immoral behavior that harms other people
1
9.5
The quality of being very evil and cruel that shocks people
1
5.3
A state of being morally bad because of wrong actions
1
8.8
A state of being dirty and morally bad
1
8.1
Being dishonest and unfair in a way that harms others
1
9.6
Very evil behaviour that harms other people
1
9.9
Very bad actions that break the law
1
8.4
Very cruel and evil actions that harm people
Being very bad and cruel to other people
Antonyms
How Evil
- Formal
25
8.8
∞
3.0
28
5.2
4
7.5
23
6.3
117
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wickedness comes from the older English word wicked, which meant 'bad' or 'evil' — think of it as the 'badness' in a person’s actions. So wickedness is the quality or state of being morally wrong or evil.