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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:

What an ungainly, ugly creature and what vicious looking eyes it has.

"Because I pinched him from you," declared Pat in a vicious undertone.

He finished his coffee, and gave the repeat button a vicious jab.

Cried his worship, very red in the gills, and speaking vicious.

She tried another scheme, making vicious little dabs at the apples.

Robinson was personally pugnacious, her husband harbored far more vicious emotions.

He closed it with a vicious slam "I told her," he said crossly.

"It's only nerves," she replied, drying her eyes with vicious dabs.

Unless you put things plainly, they take a vicious pleasure in misunderstanding you.

The waste, the almost vicious luxury, the idleness that is allowed!

Youthful candidates for tics can scarce escape from the vicious circle.

Asked Spike, as he took a vicious ball that Joe slugged to him.

As a class even the "Squatters" were not idle, or vicious, or ignorant.

A more vicious example of unintelligent memorizing it would be hard to find.

Now, luckily the Conference was admirably arranged to scotch vicious rumors.

The Gorilla's temper is dreadfully bad, horribly vicious, and fearfully vindictive.

"I do, and what a vicious little reptile he was," Beverly replied.

Vicious cocks 'roll' when challenging to fight or when wooing the hen.

The face of the baby looked like an epitome of weary, even vicious, heredity.

This vicious characteristic is strongly exemplified in the horrible custom above described.

Yes, I know there are porcupines, but porcupines are vicious and ill-mannered.

What a wrathful, vicious, contentious nature she had when she was aroused.

It was the most vicious fighting machine that ever had been spawned.

They were handicapped at birth by ignorance, by disease, by vicious parentage.

Down out of sight, water-soaked logs scraped the keel with vicious grating.

His enemies declared that he had squandered his substance in vicious ways.

It was almost a didactic tableau, fraught with lessons for the vicious.

Vicious or virtuous, matron or outcast, she was made and not born.

The vicious are to be reclaimed by gentle exhortations and encouraging sympathy.

The most vicious wild animal I met or encountered was the hog.

This vicious deadlock, however, is less real, I think, than it seems.

There is no crime which cannot be perpetrated by those vicious demons.

Vicious, dark cypresses: Vicious, you supple, brooding, softly-swaying pillars of dark flame.

Vicious cocks 'roll' when challenging to fight, also when wooing the hen.

The cable lay in a vicious tangle between winch house and stern.

He slammed the visor down on his desk with a vicious curse.

A vicious thought clothed in speech has new power over the speaker.

If it is a mischievous or vicious dog, we use pretty in an ironical sense.

The program, with all its vicious accompaniments and lamentable results, persists.

He made a vicious leap at King, his knife ready for the lunge.

Vicious by nature, he, I believe cannot be brought to reason by mildness.

It was his glory to be vicious; he was proud of his orgies.

Militarism we have thrown to the scrap heap of practices discredited and vicious.

It said, with a vicious aspirate at the beginning of the word kill.

Quintilian has said, that a vicious orthography must bring on a vicious pronunciation.

He snarled like a vicious dog when he saw what I had done.

While satire is the adopted weapon of chastisement, it wounds the vicious only.

"Have you in your household any persons subject to vicious aberrations of mind?"

With a quick lunge forward, he aimed a vicious blow at Billy Mac.

In an incredibly brief time he subdued the vicious oppressors of the people.

This is one of the most vicious and lawless areas in the world.

There was a vicious, tangy violence frozen into every line of the weapon.

Retorted Monsieur Antoine, flattening his hat over his eyes with a vicious blow.

"I'll soon stop that, my fine fellow," she shouted, with vicious asperity.

On a sudden my vicious kinsman disappeared, and shortly afterward the valet.

With a vicious snarl, the man turned and snatched at his cloak.

Interests invariably fall asunder in the end; vicious natures can always agree.

He seldom used an oath, and his tongue made a vicious lurch over it.

They're vicious and unintelligent, and they can't be disciplined or depended upon.

To seek the approbation of the vicious, leads, of course, to an opposite character.

The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.

I shall be uneasy if you start with that vicious, unmanageable incarnation of lightning.

The wolf dropped the carcass, gave a vicious snarl, and turned abruptly.

Human passion unrestrained there may be; but no sickly or vicious sentiment.

I do not believe that this vicious bull moose had ever seen a man.

The man's was hateful; the tones and accents like a vicious snarl.

Mr Dodd finished his breakfast in a very excitable and vicious manner.

"Swearing, aside from being sinful, is low, vicious, vulgar and most reprehensible."

If the proceeding is vicious and indefensible let them first abolish it.

The other party described him as subtle, evasive, treacherous, vicious, and cruel.

With the seed of the kingdom the enemy was mingling vicious tares.

One good whiff of that vicious chemical was almost enough to make you dizzy.

They said, absurdly enough, "A man who studies vice must be vicious."

A vicious horse, or one that is thoroughbred, or entire, is safe from robbers.

They are not vicious nor intemperate, nor troublesome particularly, except as beggars.

Yelled the Irishman mockingly, with a vicious thrust into his enemy's ribs.

Herein lies the whole question of success, or failure, in making vicious horses docile.

Yet the youngsters themselves are not essentially vicious; not many of them.

That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.

He seized it and bit it savagely, tearing it to pieces with vicious glee.

Into his snarl he incorporated all that was vicious, malignant, and horrible.

This, of course, assumes that the vicious tendencies are a matter of notoriety.

Directly above him, seemingly poised for a drop, was a vicious looking hook.

In fact, the entire method advocated in the foregoing passage is hopelessly vicious.

It is among the most vicious sicknesses that have ever infected any culture.

Robert's own life was vicious and wasteful, and he was soon in debt.

Never did fancy being jumped on by a mastiff, or a vicious collie.

His next prod at the coals in the grate was a vicious one.

He ran to the desk and made vicious jabs at the ivory buttons.

I never heard him utter a vicious sentiment, or applaud a wrongful act.

The former signification, if less vicious, is more commonly used than the latter.

They were grayish yellow, and seemed hungry and in a very vicious humor.

They stopped before a shop and clotted into a crowd, shouting, becoming vicious.

Before that vicious charge he wavered, then ran as if pursued by demons.

When he came round to the young provincial, he grinned with vicious impudence.

They are all of them a set of vicious, impudent, and designing hussies.

He was not a bad man; he was not necessarily vicious or dissolute.

The contract system in vogue at the institution was vicious to the extreme.

A canopy of vicious little shrapnel bursts in thousands spread itself over them.

The system has become much more vicious as regards electoral rights in boroughs.