Wickedness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Wicked character, quality, or disposition; depravity or corruption of heart; evil disposition; sinfulness: as, the wickedness of a man or of an action.
  • noun. Wicked conduct; evil practices; active immorality; vice; crime; sin.
  • noun. A wicked thing or act; an act of iniquity.
  • noun. Figuratively, the wicked.
  • noun. Synonyms Unrighteousness, villainy, rascality, knavery, atrocity, iniquity, enormity. See references under wicked.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
  • noun. A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
  • noun. A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of being wicked
  • noun. estrangement from god
  • noun. morally objectionable behavior
  • noun. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
  • noun. absence of moral or spiritual values
  • Word Usage
    "Shakespeare, whose mind was more intent upon notions than words, had in his thoughts the pulchritude of virtue, and the deformity of wickedness; and though he had mentioned _wickedness_, made the correlative answer to _deformity_."
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