What's the difference between awesome and wicked?

Awesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
  • (a.) Expressive of awe or terror.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
  • (2) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
  • (3) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
  • (4) The best way, perhaps, to sum up the awesome strength of this Spanish squad is to look at the category-A footballers who did not even start this match – a list that includes Pepe Reina, Cesc Fábregas and Fernando Torres, quite possibly the best goalkeeper, midfielder and striker in England last season.
  • (5) He's awesome," Rodman said of Kim – comments that were immediately attacked by those who tend to focus on North Korea's human rights record.
  • (6) The international players on the Spurs, and there are an awful lot of them, are representing their home countries which is kind of awesome to see.
  • (7) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
  • (8) We approached a community of women, members of a "platform for awesome women" called The Li.st , to find out.
  • (9) The exercise by a state of its most awesome power – the power to deprive a citizen of his life – must be accompanied by due process and complete transparency.
  • (10) He said he was grateful that the attack was bringing the community together and that it was “awesome honestly to be able to give people a hope that not everybody hates everybody”.
  • (11) Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision.
  • (12) Another curiosity - LeSean McCoy was held well under 100 yards that day, and he's awesome.
  • (13) This must be the most awesomely authoritarian project to emerge in western Europe since 1945.
  • (14) If you are trying to analyse a game, don’t stop at, “if I just added sniper rifles to this, it would be cool” – think about all the ways that adding sniper rifles could really hurt the game; try to understand design as a precarious balance, not just a shopping list of awesome shit.
  • (15) Maktabi cites responses "that range from 'I want to have this now because I want to try it with my boyfriend'", to "I want to write about the anthropological impact of this app on…", and adds that his favourites are "those anonymous messages that just say 'awesome'".
  • (16) It is just so awesome to see how the crowds are out there,” said Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, who added that she ended up stuck in her car after protests shut down traffic.
  • (17) The “biscuit” and “football” are the embodiment of the awesome, civilisation-ending power that will be put in Trump’s hands on 20 January.
  • (18) Camera Awesome The hit iOS photography app snapped onto Android this year, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better shots, not just on sharing them.
  • (19) "That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it – that's awesome.
  • (20) I think it's going to age well – when I played it yesterday it sounded fucking awesome.

Wicked


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
  • (a.) Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.
  • (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
  • (a.) Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
  • (2) It’s a wicked thing to do.” Thomson said the federal government had not notified him about approaching boats since 2009.
  • (3) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (4) Fluid pressure changes and digital load measurements were simultaneously detected and recorded by use of, respectively, modified wick-in-needle and force plate transducers coupled to a microcomputer.
  • (5) In cats, brain tissue pressure (BTP) was measured by the wick-catheter method.
  • (6) The lack of knowledge about proper feeding and the use of bottles, fingers, and cotton wicks, which contribute to infection, diarrhea, and malnutrition, indicates a need for better health education.
  • (7) The light stimuli are provided by a Ganzfeld stimulator and the potentials are recorded with a disposable corneal wick electrode.
  • (8) IFP was measured in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck region in humans using the wick-in-needle technique.
  • (9) Our results on Ap4A are in contrast with those reported previously (C. Weinmann-Dorsch, G. Pierron, R. Wick, H. Sauer, and F. Grummt, Exp.
  • (10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (11) titration with wicks pre-loaded with serial dilutions of rat plasma implanted post mortem for 15-20 min.
  • (12) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
  • (13) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
  • (14) The wick catheter technique was developed in 1968 for measurement of subcutaneous pressure and has been modified for easy intramuscular insertion and continuous recording of interstitial fluid pressure in animals and humans.
  • (15) The corneal wick electrode is employed for bright flash electroretinogram (ERG) recordings and for research measurements of the early receptor potential.
  • (16) In the longer term, there is a risk that local government will be seen as being wicked or incompetent as it struggles to meet George Osborne's new spending figures.
  • (17) His next book was The Great Crash 1929 (1955), a wickedly entertaining account of what happened on Wall Street in that year.
  • (18) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
  • (19) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
  • (20) Tissue pressures were recorded using saline-filled cotton-wool wicks.