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Defenition of the word vicious

    • Defenition of the word vicious

      • Deserving strong condemnation.
      • (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
      • having the nature of vice
      • marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"
      • (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin''s roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
      • marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
      • (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
      • bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

    Synonyms for the word vicious

      • barbarous
      • brutal
      • cruel
      • depraved
      • evil
      • fell
      • poisonous
      • roughshod
      • savage
      • venomous

    Similar words in the vicious

      • inhumane
      • malevolent
      • malicious
      • wicked

    Idioms for the word vicious

      • vicious circle
      • vicious union

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