Sentence examples for wicked criminal from inspiring English sources

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It is no accident that one non-literary meaning of "plot" is, as the OED has it, "a plan or project, secretly contrived by one or more persons, to accomplish some wicked, criminal, or illegal purpose; a conspiracy".

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He looks like a precocious, psychotic child who's found his father's suit, talking about a rise in crime, a "flood of theft and violence", "society's descent into criminality", "wicked criminals" and the return of capital punishment for "nonces".

"At a time of the security efforts of the Islamic State were able to break the boundaries and penetrate the security system of [Hezbollah] in Lebanon, and to crush its strongholds in the heart of its home in what is called the security zone in the southern suburbs of Beirut… in a first small payment from the heavy account that is awaiting those wicked criminals," the Twitter statement said.

Wicked Wicked (Young Vibez).

Governments say that they are only trying to protect people from the criminal and the wicked in an age when global terrorism poses a serious threat to "our way of life".

A native of the region, he quickly sought to separate long-festering grievances there from what he called "the wicked act of desperation by criminals" on Friday.

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

There's the paupers' school, whose headmaster once struck Birdie across the face; wicked Sally Pickles, who runs a gang of criminal youngsters; and the most terrifying monster of all: the workhouse.

One must view a wrecked man, like a sickly one—We cannot help loathing a diseased offensive object, so we view wickedness. it would however be more proper to pity than to hate….Animals do attack the weak & sickly as we do the wicked—….[I]t is right to punish criminals; but solely to deter others" (Ibid).

"D'evils," from "Reasonable Doubt," begins with a criminal's monologue: The shit is wicked on these mean streets — none of my friends speak, we all tryna win.

"D'evils," from "Reasonable Doubt," begins with a criminal's monologue: The shit is wicked on these mean streets none of my friends speak, we all tryna win.

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