Syn. — Iniquitous; sinful; criminal; guilty; immoral; unjust; unrighteous; unholy; irreligious; ungodly; profane; vicious; pernicious; atrocious; nefarious; heinous; flagrant; flagitious; abandoned.
See Iniquitous.
Wickedly
(Wick"ed*ly), adv. In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to
the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally.
I have sinned, and I have done wickedly.
2 Sam. xxiv. 17. Wickedness
(Wick"ed*ness), n.
1. 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.
God saw that the wickedness of man was great.
Gen. vi. 5.
Their inward part is very wickedness.
Ps. v. 9. 2. A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
I'll never care what wickedness I do,
If this man comes to good.
Shak. Wicken tree
(Wick"en tree`) Same as Quicken tree.
Wicker
(Wick"er) n. [OE. wiker, wikir, osier, probably akin to AS. wican to give way. Cf. Weak.]
1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
Then quick did dress
His half milk up for cheese, and in a press
Of wicker pressed it.
Chapman. 3. Same as 1st Wike. [Prov. Eng.]
Wicker
(Wick"er) a. Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
Each one a little wicker basket had,
Made of fine twigs, entrailéd curiously.
Spenser. Wickered
(Wick"ered) a. Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork.
Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather.
Milton. Wickerwork
(Wick"er*work`) n. A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.
Wicket
(Wick"et) n. [OE. wiket, OF. wiket, guichet, F. quichet; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vk a
small creek, inlet, bay, vik a corner.]
1. A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow
opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or
aperture. Piers Plowman. "Heaven's wicket." Milton.
And so went to the high street, . . . and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast
closed.
Ld. Berners.
The wicket, often opened, knew the key.
Dryden. 2. A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing
to a water wheel is regulated.
