dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/wic_MW.json
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{
"wicked":{
"antonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wildly"
],
"definitions":{
": causing or likely to cause harm, distress, or trouble":[
"a wicked storm"
],
": disgustingly unpleasant : vile":[
"a wicked odor"
],
": disposed to or marked by mischief : roguish":[
"does wicked impersonations"
],
": fierce , vicious":[
"a wicked dog"
],
": going beyond reasonable or predictable limits : of exceptional quality or degree":[
"throws a wicked fastball"
],
": morally very bad : evil":[],
": very , extremely":[
"wicked fast"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a wicked act of cruelty",
"She played the part of the wicked stepmother in the play.",
"She wore a wicked grin after her victory.",
"She's known for having a wicked sense of humor.",
"She had a wicked case of food poisoning.",
"A wicked odor was coming from the closet.",
"He throws a wicked fastball.",
"Adverb",
"His car goes wicked fast.",
"All his friends thought he was wicked cool.",
"The tickets were wicked expensive.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The footage, filmed in March this year, proved that the wicked sense of humor those close to the Queen have often spoken about is very much still there. \u2014 Victoria Murphy, Town & Country , 5 June 2022",
"Fans connected with Rae\u2019s awkward, self-conscious character Issa, who had foggy life ambitions, a wicked sense of style and always seemed to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. \u2014 Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"Eileen Bowman is a scene-stealer as Ella\u2019s hilariously wicked stepmother Madame. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Clever plotting\u2014an early, seemingly throwaway scene in which F\u00e9lix does some goofy martial-arts training turns out to be critical\u2014and inventive character details enhance the wicked fun. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Halloween is the time to embrace spooky decorations, along with wicked , gross and downright disturbing characters from your favorite horror flicks. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 14 June 2022",
"Trolls appeared on social media arguing his interpretation of the catechism was wicked and untrue. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
"It\u2019s not like an assault by a stranger or a wicked date. \u2014 Petula Dvorak, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"The same Wes that happily painted trees with Alicia back in the day is now even more wicked and evil than Strand has become. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 22 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1980, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, alteration of wicke wicked, perhaps from Old English wicca":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8wi-k\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unlawful",
"unrighteous",
"unsavory",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wrong"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182717",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"wickedly":{
"antonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wildly"
],
"definitions":{
": causing or likely to cause harm, distress, or trouble":[
"a wicked storm"
],
": disgustingly unpleasant : vile":[
"a wicked odor"
],
": disposed to or marked by mischief : roguish":[
"does wicked impersonations"
],
": fierce , vicious":[
"a wicked dog"
],
": going beyond reasonable or predictable limits : of exceptional quality or degree":[
"throws a wicked fastball"
],
": morally very bad : evil":[],
": very , extremely":[
"wicked fast"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a wicked act of cruelty",
"She played the part of the wicked stepmother in the play.",
"She wore a wicked grin after her victory.",
"She's known for having a wicked sense of humor.",
"She had a wicked case of food poisoning.",
"A wicked odor was coming from the closet.",
"He throws a wicked fastball.",
"Adverb",
"His car goes wicked fast.",
"All his friends thought he was wicked cool.",
"The tickets were wicked expensive.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The footage, filmed in March this year, proved that the wicked sense of humor those close to the Queen have often spoken about is very much still there. \u2014 Victoria Murphy, Town & Country , 5 June 2022",
"Fans connected with Rae\u2019s awkward, self-conscious character Issa, who had foggy life ambitions, a wicked sense of style and always seemed to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. \u2014 Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"Eileen Bowman is a scene-stealer as Ella\u2019s hilariously wicked stepmother Madame. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Clever plotting\u2014an early, seemingly throwaway scene in which F\u00e9lix does some goofy martial-arts training turns out to be critical\u2014and inventive character details enhance the wicked fun. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Halloween is the time to embrace spooky decorations, along with wicked , gross and downright disturbing characters from your favorite horror flicks. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 14 June 2022",
"Trolls appeared on social media arguing his interpretation of the catechism was wicked and untrue. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
"It\u2019s not like an assault by a stranger or a wicked date. \u2014 Petula Dvorak, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"The same Wes that happily painted trees with Alicia back in the day is now even more wicked and evil than Strand has become. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 22 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1980, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, alteration of wicke wicked, perhaps from Old English wicca":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8wi-k\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unlawful",
"unrighteous",
"unsavory",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wrong"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060435",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"wickedness":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": something wicked":[],
": the quality or state of being wicked":[]
},
"examples":[
"a couple of live wires who got into all kinds of wickedness during their vacation in Las Vegas",
"the movie featured a villain of unadulterated wickedness",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That wickedness included mass starvations, slave-labor camps, political oppression, purges and executions, religious persecution and the subjugation of satellite nations that even now struggle to pull themselves from Russia\u2019s malicious orbit. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2022",
"For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common",
"Chomsky\u2019s mendacity does not, in Harris\u2019s opinion, stem from wickedness . \u2014 Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"What such a list fails to capture, however, is the energy of Hitchens\u2019s prose, the breadth of his allusions, and the wickedness of his wit. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Green in general has a reputation for being hard-to-wear, which is probably due in part to its history as a colour of wickedness , witches, sin, and ghosts. \u2014 Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com , 21 Nov. 2021",
"In politics, communicating meaning is essential to persuasion, to the building of coalitions, and to the defeat of error and wickedness . \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Chalamet and Villeneuve bring verve and terror to the confrontation that opens the novel: a primal scene of teen-age powerlessness in the face of what appears to be arbitrary adult wickedness . \u2014 The New Yorker , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The world cannot forget the particular wickedness of the atrocities. \u2014 Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8wi-k\u0259d-n\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"devilishness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"diablerie",
"espi\u00e8glerie",
"hob",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"shenanigan(s)",
"waggery",
"waggishness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194636",
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}