Word: wickedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under China's new conquerors, calm, lanky Dr. Wallace, a 42-year-old native of Knoxville, Tenn., continued his work in Wuchow despite the hindrance of the Chinese Communists. His popularity with the Chinese of the Wuchow area was his undoing; Communist propaganda about the wicked Americans could not...
"Principles of individual liberty are good, but they are intended for the well-being of society-not to destroy it ... Let's not allow good principles to be exploited by wicked people ... If I dig a well, it's to get water to drink, not to fall into...
Readers of Barnhart's dictionary will not get a definition of the adjective evil that begins: "Injurious, mischievous." He speaks right up: "Bad; wrong; sinful; wicked." As for agate, he suppresses "a variegated chalcedony" and makes it "a variety of quartz . . ."
The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess outmaneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME, Dec. 25).
The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess out-maneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME, Dec. 25).