Job the gentile 5640 In his gestes witnesseth, That wikked men thei welden The welthe of this worlde; And that thei ben lordes of ech a lond That out of lawe libbeth.
I Wrathe reste nevere, That I ne moste folwe This wikked folk, For swich is my grace.
And be war thanne of Wrathe-thee, That is a wikked sherewe; He hath envye to hym That in thyn herte sitteth, And poketh forth pride 3730 To preise thiselven.
No fors of wikkedtonges janglerye,[86] For ever on love han wrecches had envye.
Faced with these perplexities, beginners might well echo the words of Langland's pilgrims in search of Truth: This were a wikked way, but whoso hadde a gyde That wolde folwen vs eche a fote.
And therfore, thou ne shalt doon him no damage in wikked word, ne harm in his body, ne in his catel, ne in his soule, by entysing of wikked ensample.
Eke whan he hath any wikked suspecion of thing, ther he ne woot of it no soothfastnesse.
And agayn the wikked dede of his enemy, he shal doon him bountee.
This ydelnesse is the thurrok of alle wikked and vileyns thoghtes, and of alle Iangles, trufles, and of alle ordure.
O mighty god, if that it be thy wille, Sith thou art rightful Iuge, how may it be That thou wolt suffren innocents to spille, 815 And wikked folk regne in prosperitee?
Wherfore I seye, that swiche wikked delytes and wikked thoghtes been subtile bigyleres of hem that shullen be dampned.
In this forseyde develes fourneys ther forgen three shrewes: Pryde, that ay bloweth and encreseth the fyr by chydinge and wikked wordes.
Thou shalt also have in suspect the conseilling of wikked folk.
Afterward speke we of scorninge, which is a wikked sinne; and namely, whan he scorneth a man for hise gode werkes.
But natheless, yet is his wikked conseil first agayn him-self.
By preve as wel as by auctoritee, That wikkedfruit cometh of a wikked tree, 2395 That may ye finde, if that it lyketh yow.
Thise thre that I telle of Ben thus to understonde; The wif is oure wikked flessh, That wol noght be chastised; For kynde clyveth on hym evere To contrarie the soule.
Kynde wit me telleth It is wikked to wage yow, Ye wexen out of noumbre; Hevene hath evene noumbre, And helle is withoute noumbre.
But ye lovers, that lye in any drede, 5 Fleeth, lest wikked tonges yow espye; Lo!
And if that wikked deth him have, I wol go with him to his grave.
What meveth you to hate him so But properly your wikked thought, That many a fals lesing hath thought?
And in him-self he lough right at the wo Of hem that wepten for his deeth so faste; And dampned al our werk that folweth so The blinde lust, the which that may not laste, And sholden al our herte on hevene caste.
But for that I to wryte first bigan Of his love, I have seyd as that I can.
And red wher-so thou be, or elles songe, That thou be understonde I god beseche!
The whiche dignitees and powers, yif they comen to any wikked man, they don as grete damages and destrucciouns as doth the flaumbe of the mountaigne 5 Ethna, whan the flaumbe walweth up; ne no deluge ne doth so cruel harmes.
The whiche shrewes, as I have shewed ful plentivously, seken good, but 120 wikked errour mistorneth hem, ne the ordre cominge fro the poynt of soverein good ne declyneth nat fro his biginninge.
Certes, unworthinesse of wikked men sholde be the lasse y-sene, yif they nere renomed of none honours.
And for thou ne wost what is the ende of thinges, for-thy demestow that felonous and wikked men ben mighty and weleful.
And so, as I am in certein that right wikked folk han dignitees ofte tyme, than sheweth it wel that dignitees and 60 powers ne ben nat goode of hir owne kinde; sin that they suffren hem-self to cleven or ioinen hem to shrewes.
For alle fortune that semeth sharp or aspre, yif it ne exercyse nat the gode folk ne chastyseth the wikked folk, it 75 punissheth.
No fors of wikkedtonges Ianglerye, 755 For ever on love han wrecches had envye.
But swich an errour up-on god to gesse Were fals and foul, and wikked corsednesse.
For though ther be no cause, yet hem semen Al be for harm that folk hir freendes quemen; And who may stoppen every wikked tonge, Or soun of belles whyl that they be ronge?
That wikked wivere, 1010 Thus causelees is cropen in-to yow; The harm of which I wolde fayn delivere!
But beth not wrooth, and that I yow biseche; For that I tarie, is al for wikked speche.
So also this wikked gost means this Evil Spirit, this Tempter.
However, we find the words 'by wikked suggestion' just below, in l.
Allas, it is a grevous fortune, as ofte as wikked swerd is ioigned to cruel venim; that is to seyn, venimous crueltee to lordshippe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wikked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
