What was great about John was that he could be very wicked.
I'm not so sure about the charm here, but these stories, once you get the hang of them, are very wicked, very funny and – this being Highsmith's mission in life, as far as one can tell – very unsettling.
One thing people will discover about Mr. Kline, Mr. O'Brien says, is that "Kevin can be very wicked in this role" in a way that is a meditation on the ambiguous charms of wickedness.
"The people who own the Federal Reserve own the oil companies, they own the mass media, they own the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, they're part of the Bilderbergers, and unfortunately their spiritual practices are very wicked and diabolical as well," Carey said.
In the novella "Scott-King's Modern Europe" (1947), Waugh's pessimism about the future is in the schoolmaster's admonition: "I think it would be very wicked, indeed, to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world".
Lena Dunham on Constance Wu: "On the road with her for Hillary Clinton's campaign, I was not only able to access a glint of Constance's humor (the girl is very wicked) but also witness her giving nature, her monstrously big heart, her passion for change and the careful way she lets everyone around her share the challenges of their own identity.
Speaking to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba, she said that playing the role of a "wonderfully wicked" villain was very challenging but also "great fun".
He was very shy and blushed easily, though he already had a wicked tongue.
He'll have to be very smart and very wicked if he doesn't want to hear himself in elevators.
She's very nasty and wicked," she said.
