wickedly

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wickedly

  • /ˈwɪkɪdli/

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From Middle English wyckedly, wykkedlyche, equivalent to wicked + -ly.

adverb more wickedly · most wickedly

  1. In a wicked manner. [T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.

    Similar: immorally, obscenely, wrongly, illicitly, immodestly, improperly, incontinently, indecently, reprehensibly, unchastely, unseemly, unvirtuously

  2. US, slang Very. The film was wickedly funny.

    Similar: extremely, mightily, wicked, above a bit, absolutely, sorely, widely, horribly, horrendously, bone, abundantly, all too

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adv in a wicked manner

Españolmalvadamente
Portuguêsperversamente
Françaismauvaisement, méchamment, cruellement

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@misc{wickedly_2026,
  title = {wickedly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wickedly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}