scandalous vs wicked

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

wicked

adj
  • Evil or mischievous by nature. 

  • Having a wick. 

  • Excellent; awesome; masterful. 

  • Infested with maggots. 

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

How often have the words scandalous and wicked occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )