wickedly [
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ad. 心眼坏地,居心叵测地
wickedly[ adv ]
in a wicked evil manner
<adv.all>
act wickedlygrin evilly
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.
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- Her wickedly observed (and reportedly all too accurate) portraits of contemporary Somerville personalities in Gaudy Night are echoed in her descriptions of 'Spooner looking as mad as usual' and 'Dr Dixey looking like a walrus' at Encaenia in 1913.
- Her humor remains wickedly offbeat, but she also speaks about serious matters, too.
- And then there is "The Boomer Bible," a sprawling, wickedly funny modern rewriting of the Bible that's meant to sum up a generation.
- And Norman Lebrecht's The Companion to 20th Century Music (Simon & Schuster, Pounds 20.00) is remarkably thorough (Holler's work suitably epitomised), though laced with inaccuracies, and wickedly partisan.