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vicious
[ vish-uhs ]
adjective
vicious gossip;
a vicious attack.
Synonyms: malevolent
They all feared his vicious temper.
- (of an animal) having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition:
a vicious bull.
- unpleasantly severe:
a vicious headache.
a vicious life.
Synonyms: sinful, iniquitous, corrupt, abandoned
Antonyms: moral
- given or readily disposed to evil:
a vicious criminal.
a vicious deception.
- characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound:
vicious reasoning.
- Archaic. morbid, foul, or noxious.
vicious
/ ˈvɪʃəs /
adjective
- wicked or cruel; villainous
a vicious thug
- characterized by violence or ferocity
a vicious blow
- informal.unpleasantly severe; harsh
a vicious wind
- characterized by malice
vicious lies
- (esp of dogs, horses, etc) ferocious or hostile; dangerous
- characterized by or leading to vice
- invalidated by defects; unsound
a vicious inference
- obsolete.noxious or morbid
a vicious exhalation
Derived Forms
- ˈviciousness, noun
- ˈviciously, adverb
Other Words From
- vicious·ly adverb
- vicious·ness noun
- un·vicious adjective
- un·vicious·ly adverb
- un·vicious·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of vicious1
Example Sentences
“Vicious pecking, avian hysteria, mysterious deaths, and even cannibalism” are the results, he writes.
The late-November hacking of Sony, perhaps the most vicious episode of its kind, comes at the end of the period of mourning.
But most of all, Ramone lingered on Vicious, whom he painted and drew over and over again.
Sid Vicious is stomping all over Steve Jones, about to smash in his guitar (again).
In one painting, framed as a split-panel comic between the two, Ramone simply asks Vicious, “Did you kill her?”
There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.
There was a sudden forward movement on the part of the men; but if Garnache was vicious, he was calm.
And I answer that when a man does wrong he does it because he knows no better, or because he is naturally vicious.
With a vicious snarl, the dog lifted his great body into the air and plunged toward the Comet.
He began to be afraid lest he might be overwhelmed in this slough of a petty, useless, and vicious existence.
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