This were a wikkede wey, 3794 But who so hadde a gyde, That wolde folwen us ech a foot;" Thus this folke hem mened.
That oon is a wikkede wif, {367} That wol noght be chastised; Hir feere fleeth fro hire, For feere of hir tonge.
For loke now how greetly sheweth the feblesse and infirmitee of wikkede folk, that ne mowen nat comen to that hir naturel entencioun ledeth hem, and yit almost thilke naturel entencioun constreineth hem.
For trowestow that Philosophie be now alderfirst assailed in perils by folk of wikkede maneres?
O cometh alle to-gider now, ye that ben y-caught and y-bounde with wikkede cheynes, by the deceivable delyt of erthely thinges enhabitinge in your thought!
But wikkede folk,' quod she, 'yif they geten the good that 55 they desiren, they ne mowe nat be wikkede?
For ther nis no-thing don for cause of yvel; ne thilke thing that is don by wikkede folk nis nat don for yvel.
And folk of wikkede maneres sitten in heye chayres, and anoyinge folk treden, and that unrightfully, on the nekkes of holy men?
And forthy thou oughtest nat to wondren though that I, in the bittre 45 see of this lyf, be fordriven with tempestes blowinge aboute, in the whiche tempestes this is my most purpos, that is to seyn, to displesen to wikkede men.
And evere the gretter merite shal he han, that most restreyneth the wikkede eschaufinges of the ordure of this sinne.
Agayns chyding and wikkede wordes, he shal preye for his enemy.
The firste grevance is of wikkede wordes; thilke suffrede Iesu Crist with-outen grucching, ful paciently, whan the Iewes despysed and repreved him ful ofte.
And agayns thise wikkede giltes is Penitence, that may be lykned un-to a tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wikkede" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
