Wickedly

//ˈwɪkɪdli// adv, slang

adv, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a wicked manner.

    "[T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live."

  2. 2
    very US, slang

    "The film was wickedly funny."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a wicked evil manner wordnet

Synonyms

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a bitabove a bitabsolutelyabundantlyall toobadly

Example

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"Vladimir left the table wickedly."

Etymology

From Middle English wyckedly, wykkedlyche, equivalent to wicked + -ly.

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