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Wickedness Admah and Zeboyim cities destroyed by God for citizens’ sinfulness. [O.T.: Deuteronomy 19:23] honored false gods, usurped others’ land; byword for baseness. [O.T.: I Kings 17:29–34; 21:25] murders six wives; a personification of wickedness. [Fr. Lit.: Walsh Classical, 58] taunts her husband with her promiscuity and plots to have him accused of her murder. [Br. Lit.: D. du Maurier Rebecca in Magill I, 806] urged husband, Ahab, to evildoing. [O.T.: I Kings 21:25] idolatrously and murderously leads Jerusalem astray. [O.T.: II Kings 21:2–4, 9] cities of iniquity destroyed by God’s wrath. [O.T.: Genesis 19:24] abducts a young woman and has her kind father jailed for debt. [Br. Lit.: Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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- how unblest not to know the wickedness of laughing at another's misfortune Her innocent eyes saw hidden capabilities of wickedness in me that I was not aware of myself, until I felt them stirring under her look. "Ah, she's a handsome craft, she is," the cook would say, and give her sugar from his pocket, and then the bird would peck at the bars and swear straight on, passing belief for wickedness. |
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