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Noun wickedness has 5 senses
- wickedness(n = noun.act) evil, immorality, iniquity - morally objectionable behavior; Array is a kind of evildoing, transgression
- wickedness(n = noun.state) dark, darkness, iniquity - absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" is a kind of condition, status
- wickedness(n = noun.attribute) nefariousness, ugliness, vileness - the quality of being wicked; Array is a kind of evil, evilness
- wickedness(n = noun.attribute) sin, sinfulness - estrangement from god; Array is a kind of unrighteousness
- wickedness(n = noun.attribute) loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness - the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us" is a kind of distastefulness, odiousness, offensiveness
has particulars: devilry, deviltry, foul play, irreverence, violation, sexual immorality
Derived form adjective wicked1
has particulars: foulness
Derived form adjective wicked1
has particulars: filthiness, enormity
Derived form adjective wicked1
has particulars: mark of cain
Derived form adjective wicked2
Derived form adjective wicked5
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wickedness, n.
- 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. [1913 Webster]"God saw that the wickedness of man was great." [1913 Webster]"Their inward part is very wickedness." [1913 Webster]
- A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity. [1913 Webster]"I'll never care what wickedness I do,
If this man comes to good." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
wickedness
aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, arrantness, badness, baseness, bitchiness, corruption, criminality, cussedness, damnability, debt, delinquency, depravity, deviance, deviancy, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, evilness, fiendishness, flagitiousness, foulness, godlessness, harmfulness, hatefulness, heinousness, hellishness, illegality, immorality, impiety, improperness, impropriety, inaccuracy, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, inexpedience, inferiority, infraction, iniquitousness, invalidity, invidiousness, irreligion, maleficence, malevolence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, moral badness, nastiness, naughtiness, nefariousness, noxiousness, orneriness, peccancy, rankness, reprehensibility, sin, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, ungodliness, unhealthiness, unholiness, unkindness, unlawfulness, unpleasantness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, violation, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongnessROGET THESAURUS
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Vice
N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.
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