Sentence:  &lsquo;[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was <WSD>wicked</WSD> to dress us like charity children”. […]'. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Evil or mischievous by nature.