Wickedness in example sentence

CHAPTER IX — CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITYBut coming to the other point—where a leading citizen becomes the prince of his country, not by wickedness or any intolerable violence, but by the favour of his fellow citizens—this may be called a civil principality: nor is genius or fortune altogether necessary to attain to it, but rather a happy shrewdness.

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Those who desire clarity and openness on the way to justice will be disappointed with the wickedness of so much deception.

Lazarus finds out that Rae is a sex addict and was abused as a child so he decides to take matters into his own hands by tying up Rae with a chain to cure her of her wickedness.

In dramatising Wilde's novel, John Osborne has condensed events, eliminated a number of characters, and generally implied rather than shown Dorian's essential wickedness.

Heck no, because after this intro, the girl and her wickedness simply aren't mentioned anymore.

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