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Noun
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Or watch Margaret Hamilton terrorize Dorothy before getting the backstory behind her wickedness.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 Feb. 2025 -
There is killing and hatred and strife on every level and spiritual wickedness in high places.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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Some of the most compelling performances of Hartnett’s career, though, dip more fully into villainy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
Noun
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No cause of death has been confirmed, but the NYPD says no criminality is suspected.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025
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Police also told the site that Trachtenberg died of natural causes and that criminality was not suspected in her death.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Rottenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rottenness. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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