WICKED in a Sentence

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127 example sentences for WICKED, such as:
1. No rest for the wicked.
2. A wicked man is his own hell.
3. It's very hard to turn the wick up and down.
4. He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.
5. A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WICKED
wicked
 a.  morally bad in principle or practice
 a.  having committed unrighteous acts
Classic Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
1  Not only did the romantic aura of the dashing blockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  There was a wicked sparkle in the old eyes that found an answer in her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  She could not remember any fascinatingly wicked hero of fiction who chewed tobacco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  People who make more than ten thousand a year or less than eight hundred are wicked.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  But the sea rebels; he will not bear the wicked burden.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
7  Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
8  Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
9  Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I don't blame ye so much for; dat is natur, and can't be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is de pint.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  I don't know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked one, I tell ye.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
11  Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
12  By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
13  He is severe to the idle and wicked, but to the sober and deserving he is a leader, both just and humane.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
14  'Tis true in part," returned the scout, "and yet, at the bottom, 'tis a wicked lie.'
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
15  Tis wicked fabrication of the whites, and I say it to the shame of my color that would make the warrior bow down before images of his own creation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
Example Sentence:
1  Better be upright and want, than wicked and have abundance.
2  A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
3  From beginning to end his conduct had been despicable and wicked.
4  The wicked fairy bewitched the princess and made her fall into a long sleep.
5  A wicked man is his own hell.
6  No rest for the wicked.
7  She said it was wicked to stay in there; ; she was going to live so as to go to the good place.
8  When the magic mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive, the wicked queen cried out in rage and uttered dreadful malediction.
9  "That proves you have a wicked heart; and you must pray to God to change it: to give you a new and clean one: to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."
10  My world history teacher was a short, stocky man who combined a fine mind with a homespun manner and an offbeat, wicked sense of humor.
11  They include a wick for kerosene to be drawn from the tank.
12  It's very hard to turn the wick up and down.
13  He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.