as in villainously
in a mean or spiteful manner
she wickedly whispered snide comments about the other performers in the talent show
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Recent Examples of wickedly
Midler and Hawn co-starred alongside Keaton in 1996’s The First Wives Club, with the stars portraying divorcées who wonderfully, wickedly take revenge on their terrible former spouses.
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Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Finally, the board will have the good sense to just snap their host laptop shut, but not before a wickedly riotous 10 minutes or so in which absolutely no one backs away from the keyboard.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Under the hood, the A17 Pro processor is wickedly powerful, and a massive terabyte of storage outclasses every phone in this price bracket.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
The Compound is understatedly funny and wickedly smart, an addictive slow-burn of a novel that is as pretty—and quietly dangerous—as the bushfires that glitter in the distance of the compound.
—Hannah Berman
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Nevertheless, the main event of the book and the previous film are the wickedly vicious fights between the couple, and Searchlight’s trailer seems to emphasize that aspect of it as well.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025
Fiercely loyal, wickedly funny and always there to cheer him on — no one knows Arch quite like them.
—Grace Raynor, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
The alluring but slithery presence of occult expert Alexander Babtiste (Jamie Campbell Bower, wickedly good) adds more spice to a guilty pleasure to savor.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Finally, the board will have the good sense to just snap their host laptop shut, but not before a wickedly riotous 10 minutes or so in which absolutely no one backs away from the keyboard.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Under the hood, the A17 Pro processor is wickedly powerful, and a massive terabyte of storage outclasses every phone in this price bracket.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
The Compound is understatedly funny and wickedly smart, an addictive slow-burn of a novel that is as pretty—and quietly dangerous—as the bushfires that glitter in the distance of the compound.
—Hannah Berman
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Nevertheless, the main event of the book and the previous film are the wickedly vicious fights between the couple, and Searchlight’s trailer seems to emphasize that aspect of it as well.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025
Fiercely loyal, wickedly funny and always there to cheer him on — no one knows Arch quite like them.
—Grace Raynor, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
The alluring but slithery presence of occult expert Alexander Babtiste (Jamie Campbell Bower, wickedly good) adds more spice to a guilty pleasure to savor.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wickedly
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The other claimed former special counsel Jack Smith prosecuted him maliciously and that his privacy rights were violated when the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents in August 2022.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The second claim, which was previously reported publicly last year, related to accusations that he was prosecuted maliciously by then-special counsel Jack Smith and that his privacy rights were violated when the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents in August of 2022.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In other words, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The federal government shutdown enters its 21st day – headed toward its fourth week – as Democrats and Republicans remain bitterly divided over how to resolve rising health care costs.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Taylor makes a persuasive case for how artists can grow, if incrementally and maybe bitterly, amid so much numbing digital noise.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Maduro has viciously attacked political opponents and presided over the country’s economic collapse.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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Krasznahorkai was born in Hungary in 1954, two years before the Soviets viciously crushed an uprising in Budapest, and his first two novels are soaked through with an atmosphere of political terror.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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