wickedness

wick·ed  (wkd)

adj. wick·ed·er, wick·ed·est

1. Evil by nature and in practice: "this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred" (Winston S. Churchill).

2. Playfully malicious or mischievous: a wicked prank; a critic's wicked wit.

3. Severe and distressing: a wicked cough; a wicked gash; wicked driving conditions.

4. Highly offensive; obnoxious: a wicked stench.

5. Slang Strikingly good, effective, or skillful: a wicked curve ball; a wicked imitation.

adv. Slang

Used as an intensive: "a ... body suit, which she describes as wicked comfortable" (Nathan Cobb).

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[Middle English, alteration of wicke, ultimately from Old English wicca, sorcerer; see witch.]

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wicked·ly adv.

wicked·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wickedness - morally objectionable behavior       evil, immorality, iniquity evildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father" devilry, deviltry - wicked and cruel behavior foul play - unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence) irreverence, violation - a disrespectful act sexual immorality - the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions; "sexual immorality is the major reason for last year's record number of abortions"
	2.	wickedness - absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" iniquity, dark, darkness condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" foulness - disgusting wickedness and immorality; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed"
	3.	wickedness - the quality of being wicked           nefariousness, vileness, ugliness evilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" filthiness - moral corruption or pollution; "this deformity and filthiness of sin" enormity - the quality of extreme wickedness
	4.	wickedness - estrangement from god                 sin, sinfulness unrighteousness - failure to adhere to moral principles; "forgave us our sins and cleansed us of all unrighteousness" mark of Cain - the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature
	5.	wickedness - the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us" loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, lousiness odiousness, offensiveness, distastefulness - the quality of being offensive

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wickedness

noun evil, wrong, sin, curse, wrongdoing, depravity, immorality, iniquity, badness, viciousness, sinfulness, turpitude, baseness, malignity, heinousness, maleficence moral arguments about the wickedness of nuclear weapons They have sunk to new levels of wickedness.

Translations

wickedness [ˈwɪkɪdnɪs] N

1. (= evil) → maldad f, crueldad f
all manner of wickedness → toda clase de maldades

2. (= naughtiness) [of grin, laugh, suggestion] → picardía f

wickedness [ˈwɪkɪdnɪs] n → vilenie f

wickedness

n

(of person) → Schlechtigkeit f; (= immorality) → Verderbtheit f; (= indulgence in vices) → Lasterhaftigkeit f

(= viciousness) → Bösartigkeit f; (of satire) → Boshaftigkeit f; (of frost, wind, weather) → Gemeinheit f; the wickedness of his temper → seine aufbrausende or unbeherrschte Art

(= mischievousness) → Boshaftigkeit f, → Bosheit f

(inf, of prices etc) → Unverschämtheit f

wickedness [ˈwɪkɪdnɪs] n (see adj) → cattiveria, malvagità, malizia, iniquità

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wickedness [ˈwɪkɪdnɪs] n (see adj) → cattiveria, malvagità, malizia, iniquità