Wickedness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: wick=ed=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

Wickedness, n. 

•  The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.  [1913 Webster]

  "God saw that the wickedness of man was great."  [1913 Webster]

  "Their inward part is very wickedness."  [1913 Webster]
•  A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.  [1913 Webster]

  "I'll never care what wickedness I do,
  If this man comes to good."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Wickedness

aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, arrantness, badness, baseness, bitchiness, corruption, criminality, cussedness, damnability, debt, delinquency, depravity, deviance, deviancy, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, evilness, fiendishness, flagitiousness, foulness, godlessness, harmfulness, hatefulness, heinousness, hellishness, illegality, immorality, impiety, improperness, impropriety, inaccuracy, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, inexpedience, inferiority, infraction, iniquitousness, invalidity, invidiousness, irreligion, maleficence, malevolence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, moral badness, nastiness, naughtiness, nefariousness, noxiousness, orneriness, peccancy, rankness, reprehensibility, sin, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, ungodliness, unhealthiness, unholiness, unkindness, unlawfulness, unpleasantness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, violation, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

Wickedness

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.