| 单词 | wickedness |
| 释义 | wickedness noun[U] uk/ˈwɪk.ɪd.nəs/us/ˈwɪk.ɪd.nəs/thefactof beingmorallyverywrongorbad: 坏，邪恶They would bepunishedfortheirwickedness.他们会因为自己的邪恶受到惩罚的。 Morally wrong and evil
Examplesofwickednesswickedness Whateverwickednessis supposedly being punished in a particular case, there will be perpetrators of the samewickednesswho escape punishment. From theCambridge English Corpus These women infringed cultural norms, played out their 'wickedness' and exhibited considerable mobility in their search for more meaningful existences. From theCambridge English Corpus This welcome collection of essays uses the idea of 'wickedness' as an analytical category to expose processes of political, economic and social construction and change. From theCambridge English Corpus The focus is not on ' wicked behaviour ' (whatever that might be) but on ascriptions of 'wickedness', and specifically claims about ' wicked ' behaviour by women. From theCambridge English Corpus Ascriptions of femalewickednesssimultaneously reflect male strategies for controlling women and widespread anxiety about social transformation. From theCambridge English Corpus In the novels, a planter not only protected his dependants from wicked influences, he regulated those who committed thewickedness. From theCambridge English Corpus If 'wickedness' meant a greater openness to divorce, then men appeared as wicked as women. From theCambridge English Corpus It was horror at suchwickednessthat first checked him, and brought him back to the combat. From theCambridge English Corpus And perhaps that is but one more illustration of how misleading such imaginative accounts ofwickednesscan be. From theCambridge English Corpus Our emotional responsiveness to the world - the fact that we are angered bywickedness, saddened by suffering - seems an essential part of our human nature. From theCambridge English Corpus Indeed, some of these essays are as much, or more, about ascriptions of inadequacy in men than ofwickednessin women. From theCambridge English Corpus They inevitably encourage us to viewwickednessfrom the outside, so to speak, or from the perspective of fear rather than that of love. 44. From theCambridge English Corpus This article is about the inevitability of the divorce, rather than the personal weaknesses andwickednessof the parties. From theCambridge English Corpus She hears them before she sees them and greets the sound of their "wickedness" with a tone that has the power to subdue and manipulate their bodies. From theCambridge English Corpus The need for coordination, and hence the need for law and legal authority to facilitate such coordination, is not merely an unfortunate consequence of human ineptitude andwickedness. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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