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Definition of vicious:

  • (adjective) having the nature of vice
  • (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure;
  • (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  • (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful;

Sentence Examples:

Both these youths were vicious and corrupt.

The first is virtuous, the second vicious.

It is the vicious sequel of a vicious system.

The vicious little puffs of smoke multiplied.

Yelled the cowboy, making a vicious rush.

The initial attack was sudden and vicious.

What a vicious sound those shells had!

A vicious snort was the only response.

Carlos is without heart, cruel and vicious.

Do you mean that he should have been vicious?

There were large and vicious rats also.

Vance saw nothing particularly vicious in this.

"Didn't you know it was a vicious beast?"

He shut the magazine with a vicious slap.

He is awfully high-strung and a little vicious.

That is the most vicious jade of all.

Are you not ashamed of the vicious circle?

It would suppose in them a vicious sympathy.

"I'm afraid he has a very vicious temper."

The night rushed in on a vicious wind.

He gave the silver handle a vicious snap.

He sprang towards me with a vicious scowl.

I gave the steering wheel a vicious jerk.

However, the vicious people defeated themselves in time.

In our large cities the vicious element rules.

Individuals are vicious; a pleasure-seeking crowd is not.

He also distinguishes between virtuous and vicious humility.

You mount a vicious mare without consulting me.

He showed his teeth in a vicious growl.

The modern ideal of restoration is thoroughly vicious.

Either they are friendly natives or vicious savages.

Could there be modeled a more vicious face?

They looked vicious enough to commit any crime.

You are the most vicious man I know.

There are some horses that are naturally vicious.

Graham, with a vicious eye upon her informant.

Growled Madison, a vicious look on his face.

They are easily managed, and are seldom vicious.

The operator said that they were vicious Italians.

It was a vicious circle leading to ruin.

A vicious assault on the integrity of Lincoln.

"This moon can strike like a vicious animal."

It was the scar of a vicious thorn.

It was a vicious fight while it lasted.

A vicious or refractory horse may be thrown.

This is a vicious and reactionary social impulse.

Their vicious eyes were fixed angrily upon him.

The ignorant or vicious are incapable of it.

I can do nothing for a vicious girl.

In what a vicious circle it always moves!

The South-American Caribs preserve this vicious taste.

How true it is that fools alone are vicious.

The very name of it struck me as vicious.

That vicious little can was ripped open.

It hissed at us in a vicious little way.

They make us ashamed of our vicious civilian comfort.

Bark after vicious bark set windows rattling.

It may be virtuous, or it may be vicious.

A popular election in this case is radically vicious.

It is a perfect example of a vicious circle.

Nervous, irritable sows often develop vicious habits.

I saw that we were in a vicious circle.

She cares nothing for their vicious hiss.

What vicious things elderly women can be.

Indeed, it seemed to rouse in him something vicious.

His nature seemed to be vicious to the core.

Growled Sam, whose temper was growing vicious.

To such a vicious strain this fellow belonged.

A vicious light flashed into the man's eyes.

The vicious we make dwell apart, until reclaimed.

It struck him as utterly vicious and terrible.

It was such a vicious, menacing little sound.

Gibbs, with a vicious snap of his teeth.

Retorted Betty in a vicious and formidable tone.

They were hard men, mean and sometimes vicious.

Asked Richard with a kind of vicious sweetness.

He finished the light with a vicious blast.

Whence can I have inherited these vicious tendencies?

Clive, don't that horse look a little vicious?

I ordered him to slaughter that vicious beast.

Then the vicious heart of Loki grew joyous.

The people do not prosper under vicious government.

Scarlett gave his dark curls a vicious rub.

We're both trying to overthrow a vicious bureaucracy.

His sharp face split in that vicious grin.

The mosquitoes were certainly very plentiful and vicious.

The third class of speculation is wholly vicious.

Her voice is feeble, but her manner vicious.

This was a vicious circle with a vengeance.

You try ridiculous things, disgusting things, vicious things.

It was a vicious face, hawk-nosed and mean.

Asked Billy, a vicious glint in his eyes.

I associated with vicious women; that may be.

She might have been proud, vicious and ignorant.

"That strikes you as rather vicious, doesn't it?"

Large, vicious flies prove another menace to horses.

This is the beginning of the vicious circle.

There is nothing necessarily vicious in all this.

Their key relationships are usually vicious or unhealthy.

Wherever men can be vicious, some will be.