Sentence examples for wicked children from inspiring English sources

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Not that they're wicked children.

Together, they're cute on top of cute — wicked children who promise us one thing (theatrical truth) while delivering another (artifice).

But Dahl had his wicked children punished by drowning in chocolate, inflating into a giant blueberry, thrown down a garbage chute and being shrunk to a couple of inches.

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But in early drafts of "Matilda," Dahl had painted her as a wicked child who uses telekinesis to fix a horse race, a pursuit that ultimately kills her.

Tradition relates that the wicked child asks on Passover, "What does all this mean to you?," distancing himself from what should be utterly personal.

From the trailer I thought that creepy Paul was going to make an Edward Norton-in-Primal Fear-type turn from mentally impaired creep into wicked child-abducting mastermind, but instead he spends the movie screaming in a box.

You are dealing with a very stubborn (and wicked) child here!

Likewise, fairy tales tell us that all stepmothers are wicked and children who came from unconventional family set-ups are isolated social misfits.

On this night, just this once, may we cease to call these children wicked.

"He's not this wicked, evil, bombing, child-killing person.

The Haggadah calls this child wicked because he cannot picture himself as part of the Exodus.

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