What's the difference between sliminess and wickedness?
Sliminess
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being slimy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slimy basket case Climate change and human globalisation assist most travelling species but many journeys are still mysterious.
(2) Only Candida albicans and the corresponding slimy coat were found on smooth areas of tube.
(3) Ifind it hard to get excited about slimy, translucent, near‑flavourless egg whites, but I can't bear to throw them away.
(4) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
(5) Both symbiotic and free-living (non-associative) nitrogen fixation analyses (by acetylene reduction) revealed that the non-slimy, small colonies were significantly more effective than slimy, large colonies.
(6) At surgery, the mass was noted not to penetrate the superficial surface of the quadriceps tendon and was full of slimy fluid.
(7) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(8) This is a decision which will force talented young athletes to work another year for free while making huge amounts of money for everyone else at their unpaid workplace, to pass this off as somehow the "right thing to do" for the game or, even worse, is just slimy.
(9) No 'slimy' state of this fungus was observed and dimorphism was not confirmed.
(10) A slimy material, responsible for increased viscosity of these cultures, was digested by dextranase.
(11) Disease signs included acute death, inability to fly, lameness, inappetence, emaciation, polyuria, and the production of slimy, green droppings.
(12) With proteins and other polymers released from lysed bacteria, this slimy material may contribute directly to increased viscosity and foam formation.
(13) The secondary forms of the agglutinates were similar to those of Enterobacteriaceae, the typical primary form of the agglutination into slimy networks and spheres was not observed upon the restoration of agglutinability.
(14) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.
(15) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
(16) Even the briefest hint of a sniff of a rumour that the studio is going the “teen choice” route by plumping for looks over substance will see the movie sink faster than Luke’s X-wing in Yoda’s slimy Dagobah swamp, which is why rumoured candidates such as Glee’s Blake Jenner should be avoided like the Candorian plague .
(17) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(18) Buck Pal receptions are all 1970s vol-au-vents (complete with a slimy surprise lurking within), or squeezy cheese on a Ritz cracker.
(19) Snails, one of France's signature dishes, could be off the menu if the country fails to stem an invasion by a slimy worm from south-east Asia, scientists have said.
(20) They pull off an armed robbery and make it to Florida where they meet James Franco's slimy gangster, Alien, described by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most "repulsive cinematic creations in recent memory".
Wickedness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
(n.) A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
Example Sentences:
(1) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(2) Tony Abbott has recently delivered an explicit warning that the Daesh death cult is “coming for us”, however, Turnbull argued it was important not to get sucked into the Isis strategy “and ourselves become amplifiers of their wickedness and significance”.
(3) It is towards an anti-government fervour that recalls the militia movement of the 1990s, convinced that every Washington move – even a plan to expand healthcare – is motivated by wickedness and constitutes a step towards tyranny.
(4) Less welcome was Professor Griff's 1989 interview with the Washington Times where he condemned Jews as responsible for 'the majority of the wickedness that goes on across the globe'.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigns, taking responsibility for the German carmaker’s rigging of US emissions tests Yet it would be simplistic to blame the wickedness of the industry and to suppose that the consumers involved were entirely innocent idealists, cruelly misled by unscrupulous marketeers.
(6) I know we are supposed to present them as extreme wickedness but they don’t appear like that to lots of Labour voters who thought this was mainstream Labour policy.
(7) There is a certain perverse charm to what appears to be Sepp’s final mission: exposing the weaknesses and wickedness of everyone who has profited from his regime down the decades.
(8) Maybe that’s because Laurie’s Roper has been enter taining us for so long with his cool, his wit, his urbanity and his sheer wickedness that we don’t want to let him go.
(9) They lament western wickedness with the reliability of professional mourners.
(10) Before tragedy strikes, we must all take the initiative and talk to these families, listen to their problems but, ultimately, we must take proactive steps to help them before "hate" and "wickedness" take a hold.
(11) We now know the banks' tricks involved not just dubious wizardry but a measure of wickedness too.
(12) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
(13) When I asked my friend the professor of gender studies about all this stuff some time ago (I know this sounds like the overture to a joke, but it isn't), I was semi-secretly hoping for a jeremiad on the wickedness of princess-mania, and tips on how she'd saved her daughters from it.Actually, she said, one of hers had that obsession too, for a bit – but that other obsessions came along to supplant them.
(14) This warning about the lure of wickedness reveals how Prince’s vision of the battle between good and evil was much darker than Burton’s take.
(15) When the full extent of his wickedness was revealed, we put him in a box marked "monster".
(16) Just as some were putting the wickedness of Savile and his ilk in a box marked “long ago”, Rochdale broke and the abuse of children in care was revealed.
(17) Under the amendment the same buildings, the same canteen, the same umbrella stands, the same courses, the same bitching about Orbán and his wickedness can continue, and students can get a qualification recognised in Europe .
(18) Stories such as the prime minister’s surprisingly resilient support for the charity, the lobbying of a Conservative party co-treasurer – James Lupton – and the embedding of two civil servants to help restructure the organisation somehow became examples of the wickedness that had taken root in the charity.
(19) What many people seem to want is to be confirmed in their view that all of this is down to the personal wickedness of a single individual; arrest Blair, clap him in irons at The Hague, and everything will return to a state of primal, unsullied innocence.
(20) The virtue of Israel and the wickedness of her enemies are recurring themes in his work."