Sentence examples for a wicked boy from inspiring English sources
He's outstanding, a precursor of Graham Greene's Pinkie, a wicked boy with a blonde (or grey) streak in his hair.
Although there are moments when events spring vividly to life – impossible to forget the sad, disturbing letter Coombes sent while he was on remand, in which he drew pictures of the gallows and gave away an imaginary fortune – most of the time, our wicked boy is little more than a cipher, an outline rather than a fully fleshed character.
Dad had a wicked, Texas boy sense of humor.
The sergeant is telling the judge the terrible thing the wicked boy has done.
Kate Summerscale brings the same painstaking intensity to her description of the case and its aftermath in The Wicked Boy (Bloomsbury) as she did to her bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
Her mother — what a martyr to those wicked boys, that silent husband!
This is a wicked bug, for sure.
"My life would make a wicked book.
A wicked-looking little boy in a beret stood between her knees, tangled in it.
(In a tense scene late in the film, Eddie tells Mike to put on a new suit. "You're giving me fashion tips at gunpoint?" Mike asks rhetorically. Eddie answers, "Someone has to".) It's completely unbelievable that when Eddie's wife makes a seductive move, Mike panics and runs away like a farm boy meeting a wicked city woman for the first time.
His family recall that as a boy McQueen "had a wicked sense of humour, he'd have us all in stitches.
