Teach them by example and by stories (parables): That is kind, as you may save their souls from perdition (definition: "the future state of the wicked," per dictionary.com)[6].
The Devil must grin at such a sorry state of affairs and at the wicked Catch-22 at its core.
Or perhaps the secret is hidden amongst the often wild and wicked waters that surround the coastline of this small southernmost state of Australia.
A contemporary editor said of him, "He takes advantage of a state of things which he declares to be 'immoral, unjust and wicked,' and even while haranguing the loudest, is purloining the fastest".
Then goes he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first".
Mattie discovers the wicked Chaney has moved into the Indian Territory, the lawless land that's now the state of Oklahoma.
Out of the steppes in the thirteenth century came Genghis Khan and the Mongol hordes, civilization's then worst nightmare, the wicked stepfathers of the Russian state and of its tsars and commissars.
In Saudi Arabia, where no protests were reported, the grand mufti, the highest religious authority in Islam's birthplace, denounced the attacks and said "it is forbidden to punish the innocent for the wicked crimes of the guilty," state news media reported.
I will send not a man nor a dollar for the wicked purpose of subduing my sister Southern states.
