Sentence examples for is less wicked from inspiring English sources

And the wicked queen (Charlize Theron, again) is less wicked than endlessly, repetitively angst-ridden.

We learn that sins of incontinence are less wicked than sins of will; that the sins of sodomy, blasphemy, and usury are punished together because they all involve violence against God or His natural order.

It is less good at "wicked" problems, such as poverty and overpopulation.

For starters "2 Days in Paris" is less romantic, more wicked and very personal.

In these 30 electric tales of menace, however, this wicked British writer is less interested in how things pan out than in capturing that awful moment when someone recognizes he is powerless to undo his fate.

The art of cryptography had the advantage of being perhaps less wicked than necromancy, while still attracting the attention of powerful political patrons.

A third was decades of denial that the Katyn massacre was the work of the Soviets, not the Nazis (that subject occasionally surfaces in this column too).But the article was not trying to argue Soviet history is more (or less) wicked than Britain's.

Is it, is it wicked?

Duff is the best thing about this courtroom drama, wherein Rattigan (a gay playwright) essentially defends the sexually unorthodox Mrs Rattenbury as less wicked than conservative England presumed.

Brown was wicked, but not wicked enough.

For one thing, he is a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best.