wickedly

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɪdli/

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• Hyphenation: wick‧ed‧ly

wickedly (comparative more wickedly, superlative most wickedly)

1. In a wicked manner.

   Synonyms: immorally, obscenely, wrongly; see also Thesaurus:unvirtuously

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:

     [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. (US, slang) Very.

   Synonyms: extremely, mightily, wicked; see also Thesaurus:very

   The film was wickedly funny.

   • 2023 September 13, Gary Shteyngart, “Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – arrested development”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 November 2023:

     This wasn’t the first time I held Isaacson’s judgment in low regard. […] Linda Yaccarino, Musk’s almost comically bumbling CEO of X is “wickedly smart”.