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vicious

Someone or something that is vicious is evil, immoral, aggressive, or violent.

vicious

(= barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage) (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 (= evil) having the nature of vice (= poisonous, venomous) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful poisonous hate venomous criticism vicious gossip (= criminal, deplorable, reprehensible) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure a criminal waste of talent a deplorable act of violence adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife

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Tom thinks swans are even more vicious than geese.
The answer leads us to a vicious circle.
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
Tom was mauled by a vicious animal.
Fashion is a vicious cycle.
Watch out! This monkey is vicious.
Tom is vicious.
It's a vicious cycle.
How can we break out of this vicious circle?
You must break the vicious circle.
Mary spread vicious rumors about Kate.
Mary spread vicious gossip about her best friend behind her back.
It is difficult to break the vicious circle of wages and prices.
It's a vicious circle.
I cannot feed John's dog. It's too vicious.

Movie subtitles

A foolish vicious cycle.
They're vicious.
Blackie, why don't you take this chance to get away from those hoodlums that hang around you like a bunch of flies, and from gambling houses and rackets and graft, and all the rotten, vicious things about you?
And it is just this vicious practice which we must stamp out.
He doesn't look very vicious, does he?
There we fought a vast and vicious enemy. A cruel adversary, the Swedish host.
However, all hardened criminals are cruel and vicious.
It's vicious, and low and cruel.
Now we can understand this vicious persecution of a man. whose only crime is that he stands between Tolliver and that girl.
I'm not kind. I'm vicious.
Your methods are vicious. There ought to be a law against it.
You're vicious.
Men are vicious!
Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
Why should I who am so good to you be as vicious and evil as you describe me?
It's a vicious circle, my friends, and the only place to cure it is right here at the source.
Why is everybody so vicious about this fellow?
That's a vicious lie, Your Honor!
I was vicious, mean and selfish.
I know he's keeping some secret from me but he could never do anything vicious I'm sure.
So, that blow on the back of the neck becomes an interesting element. It was unnecessary, therefore vicious.
Intelligent criminals are seldom vicious except on special occasions.
You know there's nothing too cruel, too vicious.
Or the health inspectors telling you that your air is vicious?
Those poachers have a couple of huge, vicious hounds.
But people of Prague, I ask you. shall we perish for the vicious act of a murdering manic? Stop that immediately!
He may look gentle, but he's vicious when mad.
There was nothing vicious about it.
If he were mean or vicious or if he bawled me out I'd like him better.
I'm in danger. He can be vicious, Ravic. Oh, you're not even listening to.
It's like a nasty, vicious little man.
Imagine how snide and vicious he could get, and still tell nothing but the truth.
Time for vicious practical jokes.
He dared to come in his work clothes to repeat slander, vicious stories from you.
THAT MAY SEEM A SUPREMELY UNIMPORTANT FELONY TO YOU, MR. PRESTON, BUT TO ME, IT IS MURDER OF A PECULIARLY VICIOUS AND UNFORGIVABLE KIND.
I put chains on her. They only made her vicious.
She really isn't vicious, you know. She's a wonderful nurse. - Although Father says.
Don't listen to vicious tongues.
If you want to get vicious on this thing, I'd be happy to accommodate you.

News and current affairs

It's a vicious circle, technically known as a poverty trap.
It is a vicious circle, but where and why did it start?
But there is another, darker side to this craving, which is the wish to see idols dragged through the mud in vicious gossip magazines, divorce courts, and so on.
Much of the poor majority of the world is mired in a vicious circle of disease, poverty, and political instability.
With such vicious cycles of crime, punishment and dis-investment in poor communities it is no surprise that the prison population has expanded to such an extent.
But, while gradual adjustment is essential, faster and deeper cuts are largely self-defeating: big reductions in private credit and government spending will cause a sharper slowdown - and thus a vicious downward spiral.
The Al Qaeda-led and Salafist extremist groups in the rebel forces, such a Al Nusra, have proved to be just as vicious as the government and its allies, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
A series of vicious cycles that one had hoped had vanished with the end of the Great Depression have shown themselves to be relevant today.
This vicious cycle of coups, constitutions, and elections defined Thai politics for decades.
Indeed, China is now locked in a vicious economic circle, sustained by seemingly unrelated distortionary policies that are, in fact, deeply interconnected, even symbiotic.
Indeed, the internecine squabbles are said to be so vicious that there have been rumors, denied by the regime, that the Communist Party's congress at which a new president and prime minister are to be anointed this autumn, might be postponed.
The Dayton agreement represented not so much the defeat of their plans as the international legitimation of their division of Bosnia, with Bosnian Muslim enclaves left in a nervous see-saw with Tudjman's vicious Hercegovinian minions.
In fact, the emerging systemic risk concerning the sustainability of the eurozone produces a vicious circle.
Nonetheless, experimental monetary policies in advanced economies - such as the large-scale asset purchases initiated this month by the European Central Bank - have slowed the vicious circle of subpar economic performance and muddled politics.
NEW YORK - A vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy.
Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession.
The risk of a vicious, self-reinforcing downward spiral would rise sharply.
But the vicious racist attacks on the justice minister, Christiane Taubira, who is black, would have been unthinkable in past decades.
The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.
If the vicious tone of his opponent's campaign offers any indication, Funes cannot count on the good will of those who have yet to learn how to behave like a loyal opposition.
This generates a vicious, untenable cycle of deep poverty and social exclusion for the south.
Europeans rose to defend a vital principle; free speech, however vicious, retains a place in any democracy.

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