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Noun
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The tinny, atmospheric beat escalates the wickedness, like a party that ends with a seance.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Or watch Margaret Hamilton terrorize Dorothy before getting the backstory behind her wickedness.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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With all due respect to the great Patricia Arquette, the character wasn’t especially missed in her absence, as her villainy and zealotry have tended to be written in a more one-dimensional way than how Severance portrays those same broad ideas with Milchick.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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Despicable Me 2 In this 2013 sequel, Gru has officially retired from villainy and is now a devoted father to Margo, Edith and Agnes.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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An investigation is ongoing, but criminality is not suspected in her death, per police.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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During the hearing, a state prosecutor, Michael Grillo, told the judge that the government had more evidence of criminality than the facts included in the indictment.—
Tracey Tully,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Rottenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rottenness. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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