Explore Wickedness through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like evil or iniquity. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Wickedness in a sentence
Wickedness meaning
- The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
- A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
Synonyms of Wickedness
Using Wickedness
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality. | A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
- Useful related words include: evil, iniquity, vileness, sin.
- In the example corpus, wickedness often appears in combinations such as: wickedness and, the wickedness, wickedness of.
Context around Wickedness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wickedness
- In this selection, "wickedness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sense, campy, great, frank and served stand out and add context to how "wickedness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abettors of wickedness against humanity and act of wickedness that led. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wickedness" sits close to words such as abdulrahman, accessorised and acropolis, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wickedness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is wickedness of the highest order. (7 words)
He showed his wickedness by the protesters. (7 words)
Almsgiving with righteousness is better than wealth with wickedness” (Tb 12:8). (12 words)
Make no mistake about it, I am not a fan of the former Governor of Lagos state, but to deliberately create problems for millions of Nigerians all in a bid to stop one man from emerging as President is the height of wickedness. (43 words)
They perform gendered extremes and in-betweens in the most exaggerated and captivating ways possible—think Ursula’s smoky eye and devious body language, HIM and his campy wickedness, Frank-N-Furter’s, well, everything, and so on. (38 words)
A sociocultural group, Egbe Omo Yoruba North America, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the barbaric and disgraceful act of wickedness that led to killing of some protesters on Tuesday night in Lagos. (34 words)
Are the Four Horsemen of the Chocopalypse (or Horsepersons?) just over that koppie over there, readying to thunder in and wreak vengeance on us all for our manifold wickedness? (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Almsgiving with righteousness is better than wealth with wickedness” (Tb 12:8).
Angoy’s Avenue continues to be a reminder of the PNC’s wickedness and neglect.
Kyung-chul is able to sense wickedness in others and recognizes that his relentless adversary has become tainted by evil, musing at one point that Soo-hyun is a real psycho.
Make no mistake about it, I am not a fan of the former Governor of Lagos state, but to deliberately create problems for millions of Nigerians all in a bid to stop one man from emerging as President is the height of wickedness.
Many Nigerians should feel ashamed that they are aiders and abettors of wickedness against humanity.
They perform gendered extremes and in-betweens in the most exaggerated and captivating ways possible—think Ursula’s smoky eye and devious body language, HIM and his campy wickedness, Frank-N-Furter’s, well, everything, and so on.
During the trial, which lasted nine days, the prosecutor said it was a case of "great unusualness, great horror and great wickedness".
If you are patriotic, you won’t stifle businesses out of wickedness.
In a year marked by wars, extreme weather and general wickedness, many dispatches defaulted to a distinctly dark tone.
Rav Kook explained that this outer wickedness served to fortify the strength of the righteous, who must struggle against this darkness by adding more light.
They kept it relatively tame on this evening, which leaves room for extreme wickedness as The Calling civil war continues.
This is wickedness of the highest order.
This warehouse is filled with books donated by the President, but because of the wickedness, the immediate past governor prevented the books from being distributed to the children.
According to her, it is pure wickedness for these churches to invite gospel musicians for programs and give them nothing.
Are the Four Horsemen of the Chocopalypse (or Horsepersons?) just over that koppie over there, readying to thunder in and wreak vengeance on us all for our manifold wickedness?
A sociocultural group, Egbe Omo Yoruba North America, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the barbaric and disgraceful act of wickedness that led to killing of some protesters on Tuesday night in Lagos.
A year later, he elaborated that “Sheriff” was a metaphor for wickedness and can be interchanged with any oppression you’re facing at the time.
Former Public Enemy member Richard 'Professor Griff' Griffin was kicked out of the rap group in 1989 after saying Jews were 'wicked' and were responsible for the 'majority of the wickedness in the world'.
He showed his wickedness by the protesters.
In a way, she reversed the roles as we think of them — subtly — which lent her Odette an earthy sensuality and her Odile a way of camouflaging her wickedness with innocence.
Common combinations with wickedness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wickedness and 14×
- the wickedness 11×
- wickedness of 10×
- of wickedness 8×
- and wickedness 7×
- wickedness in 4×
- their wickedness 4×
- wickedness for 3×
- is wickedness 2×
- wickedness the 2×