Wickedly
['wɪkɪdli]
Definition
(adv.) in a wicked evil manner; 'act wickedly'; 'grin evilly'.
Edited by Alta--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally.
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Examples
- No father in all England could have behaved more generously to a son, who had rebelled against him wickedly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You've been so wickedly overworked-- Perhaps it's that. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But you know French, aunt, said Maurice wickedly; and I am afraid Gyp, George Sand, and Belot, are quite as bad, if not worse, than the Latin poet. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak loftily. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He and they, who wickedly began and madly continue a war for the desolation of America, are accountable for the consequences. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Up to that moment, my own opinion had been (as you know) that the Colonel had died as wickedly as he had lived. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Birkin approached, smiling wickedly at seeing Ursula so nonplussed and frightened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I never was so wickedly wronged. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I've spoken very wickedly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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