Sentence examples for it a wicked from inspiring English sources

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Look, and there is gold coming up, here is Charlie panning for it, a wicked glint in his eye.

If a human kills with poison, we label it a wicked and premeditated crime, one no plea of "self-defense" can excuse.

THEY were the Macbeths of information technology (IT): a wicked couple who seized power and abused it in bloody and avaricious ways.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who was inspecting a guard of honour at the time, called it a "wicked act of desperation by criminals and murderers".

But is there any political credit for the Lib Dems to be gained from ostentatiously washing their hands of an unpopular policy and trying to rebrand it a wicked Tories-only initiative?

Fowler calls it a "wicked word," a pretentious and ignorant borrowing from French; properly, it means not "careful," but "frightened" — indeed, teeth-chatteringly so — coming, as it does, from the Latin metus (fear).

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"It's a wicked analogy but it's pretty realistic".

"It occurred to me it's a wicked notion," he explained, his blue eyes twinkling, making him look dangerously like the kind of sweet old coot he says he disdains.

The track was built in colonial times and thousands of workers died during its construction; it was a wicked project.

The English subtitle to this book oversells it as "A Wicked Bestiary", whereas in America it's merely "A Modest Bestiary" – suggesting that Sedaris knows what place it'll finally hold in his otherwise considerable collected works.

It has a wicked opening line but I'm fairly confident it could not be printed in a family newspaper.

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