as in villainously
in a mean or spiteful manner
she wickedly whispered snide comments about the other performers in the talent show
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Recent Examples of wickedly
The resistance to public disclosure has been wickedly unrelenting, overcome only by an act of Congress last year.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
And so wickedly smart to call it.
—Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
And so wickedly smart to call it.
—Safiyah Riddle, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
That's the general vibe of this wickedly entertaining horror indie, which centers on a cursed episode of a late-night talk show from 1977.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
Braithwaite has a way of making the Falodun family’s superstition seem both wickedly funny and haunting.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
And the funny business is deliciously, wickedly funny.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2025
It’s been a wickedly good week for Jonathan Bailey.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Midler and Hawn co-starred alongside Keaton in 1996’s The First Wives Club, with the stars portraying divorcées who wonderfully, wickedly take revenge on their terrible former spouses.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
And so wickedly smart to call it.
—Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
And so wickedly smart to call it.
—Safiyah Riddle, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
That's the general vibe of this wickedly entertaining horror indie, which centers on a cursed episode of a late-night talk show from 1977.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
Braithwaite has a way of making the Falodun family’s superstition seem both wickedly funny and haunting.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
And the funny business is deliciously, wickedly funny.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2025
It’s been a wickedly good week for Jonathan Bailey.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Midler and Hawn co-starred alongside Keaton in 1996’s The First Wives Club, with the stars portraying divorcées who wonderfully, wickedly take revenge on their terrible former spouses.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wickedly
Adverb
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Our policy is—and has long been—that team members are only responsible for paying for personal protective equipment if the equipment is lost or maliciously damaged.—
Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Ultimately, the risk is not that AI agents will behave maliciously.—
Dan Mountstephen,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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In other words, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Mary leaves four children, ages 10 to 17 — and relatives feuding so bitterly that the two families had to go to court to decide where Mary would be laid to rest and two separate memorial services were held.—
Jill Smolowe,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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The strike was fought bitterly on both sides.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The dictator’s successor, Ion Iliescu, viciously crushed pro-democracy demonstrations.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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In other words, the fashion and interior design pendulum has viciously swung back about two decades.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Wickedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickedly. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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