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adjective

evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.

mischievous or playfully malicious: These wicked kittens upset everything.

distressingly severe, as a storm, wound, or cold: a wicked winter.

unjustifiable; dreadful; beastly: wicked prices; a wicked exam.

having a bad disposition; ill-natured; mean: a wicked horse.

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spiteful; malevolent; vicious: a wicked tongue.

extremely troublesome or dangerous: wicked roads.

unpleasant; foul: a wicked odor.

Slang. wonderful; great; masterful; deeply satisfying: He blows a wicked trumpet.

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adverb

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Slang. very; really; totally: That shirt is wicked cool.

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a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty

a tiresomely disagreeable person

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Origin:
1225–75; Middle English wikked, equivalent to wikke bad (representing adj. use of Old English wicca wizard; compare witch) + -ed -ed³

Related forms

wick·ed·ly, adverb

qua·si-wick·ed, adjective

qua·si-wick·ed·ly, adverb

un·wick·ed, adjective

un·wick·ed·ly, adverb

Can be confused: wicca, wicked.

Synonyms
1. unrighteous, ungodly, godless, impious, profane, blasphemous; immoral, profligate, corrupt, depraved, dissolute; heinous; infamous, villainous. See bad¹.

Antonyms
1. good, virtuous.

Example Sentences

Mentor also enjoys wicked scenarios, but success is always the best revenge.

So the news was both good and bad: the wicked leaders had left, but-it seemed-had got off scot-free.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has: two children who.

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Mentor also enjoys wicked scenarios, but success is always the best revenge.

So the news was both good and bad: the wicked leaders had left, but-it seemed-had got off scot-free.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has: two children who.

What is more, the volumes wicked upward were not trivial.

We are enjoined to see the penguins as good and the giant petrel as wicked.

Email me an example with a wicked witch, an evil gnome, or a bawdy satyr hiding in that tiny forest.

Just try not to leave more than once, lest you miss too many wicked awesome visuals.

He is wicked smart, a lucid writer, and has a good nose for interesting topics.

Nowhere is the triumph of the tsars more evident than in the wicked world of drugs.

Wicked is an amazing play about the witches when they were growing up.

And according to benchmarks that are beginning to pop up online, the phone looks to be wicked fast.

They'll never know you're the mild-mannered one with the wicked imagination.

As ever, his rambunctious plot is largely a vehicle for snappy dialogue, snide parody and wicked one-liners.

Ride will let you drop wicked tricks on a stationary skateboard loaded with motion sensors.

Anonymity is guaranteed to the wicked as well as the wise.

In practical terms, the question about wicked views and good writers can often hinge on the matter of editing.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has a beautiful daughter who must work for her sisters.

The wicked left-right combination is famous for its perilous drop.

Folklore always knew this: wicked stepfathers have been a staple of fairy-tales since time immemorial.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has two children who.

Ostracising wicked companies does not reform them, these sceptics say.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has two children who are left in the woods.

It is difficult to imagine anyone, however religious, condemning the policeman's conduct as wicked.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has two children who run away to the woods.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has a beautiful daughter who must work for little men.

It's well ventilated for the hot climate and the wicked material keeps you pretty dry.

Rhinos are being exterminated for no reason other than to make wicked people rich.

Through a series of natural and man-made influences and events comes one especially wicked disease.

And innovation can turn these wicked global crises into unprecedented economic opportunities.

How can there be forgiveness when one does not see the wicked actions of their ways.

Pychosis, blindness, wicked constipation-the side effects of street heroin ingredients-make the drug that much more appealing.

She used her wryly wicked wit to lightly rip them apart.

How these microbes are able to withstand what must be wicked shifts in salinity on an ongoing basis is anyone's guess.

Some sources paint her as a veritable wicked witch of the east, whose enemies often mysteriously dropped dead.

Head-mounted display is an old, wicked problem, and hand-waving's.

It can't be repeated often enough that wicked people can be learned aesthetes, and ignorant people kind and virtuous.

Walking that path alone is scary, lonely, and wicked hard.

I've heard that it is somehow softer, less involving, less wicked than.

Keep in mind that professional hair coloring is wicked expensive, and you have to keep doing it to keep it looking even okay.

And the blame for those deaths is entirely due to the truly wicked environmental lobby in our midst.

Mad scientist with aspirations for world domination seeks intelligent co-conspirator with a wicked sense of humor.

The margins of error are fatter for the wicked when others are picking up the tab.

The dinosaur came with a graceful motion and a wicked ability to respond to human interaction that made it seem almost real.

She and her readers get off on imagining both all the wicked things academics do and a rescue fantasy with.

Mandarin is far more useful but wicked hard to learn.

Your iPhone plugs into the top, which looks kind of silly, but it's still a wicked cool piece of art.

What happens would simply be that the citizens are at the mercy of a benevolent or wicked office stealer.

Once it has extracted the information it requires, it slops out of your throat and saunters off with a wicked grin on its face.

The unwinding of this wicked web, in a bubble bursting environment may be the wild card this time.

We tinkered with moving this stud around and were able to perfect a wicked fade and a slick draw.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.

verb (used with object)

to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English wicke, weke, Old English wice, wēoc(e); cognate with Middle Dutch wiecke, Middle Low German wêke, Old High German wiohha lint, wick (German Wieke lint); akin to Sanskrit vāgura noose

Related forms

wick·less, adjective

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Collins

World English Dictionary

wicked (ˈwɪkɪd)

—*adj*
1.	a. morally bad in principle or practice
	b. (as collective noun; preceded by the): the wicked
2.	mischievous or roguish, esp in a playful way: a wicked grin
3.	causing injury or harm
4.	troublesome, unpleasant, or offensive
5.	slang very good

[C13: from dialect wick, from Old English wicca sorcerer, wiccewitch¹]

'wickedly

—*adv*

'wickedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

wick

"dairy farm," now surviving, if at all, as a localism in East Anglia or Essex, it was once the common O.E. wic "dwelling place, abode," then coming to mean "village, hamlet, town," and later "dairy farm" (e.g. Gatwick "Goat-farm"). Common in this latter sense 13c.-14c. The word is a general Gmc. borrowing

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from L. vicus "village, hamlet" (see vicinity). Cf. O.H.G. wih "village," Ger. Weichbild "municipal area," Du. wijk "quarter, district," O.Fris. wik, O.S. wic "village."

wicked

c.1275, earlier wick (12c.), apparently an adj. use of O.E. wicca "wizard" (see wicca). For evolution, cf. wretched from wretch. Slang ironic sense of "wonderful" first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Slang Dictionary

wicked definition

mod.
excellent; impressive; cool. (Also in compounds, wicked smart, wicked cool, etc.) : Now this is what I call a wicked guitar.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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