Synonym: bad, barbarous, base, brutal, cruel, evil, ferocious, inhumane, low, malicious, naughty, ruthless, savage, sinful, spiteful, vile, wicked, wrong. Similar words: officious, pernicious, judicious, malicious, capricious, suspicious, judiciously, avariciously. Meaning: ['vɪʃəs] adj. 1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering 2. having the nature of vice 3. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure 4. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful.
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(151) News of the arrests comes on the day that another pensioner underwent emergency surgery following a separate vicious robbery.
(152) Unlike that of the most vicious of television's robotic villains, their aim is environmental salvation for the earth.
(153) Suddenly one hurtled past the riders' Piper plane from underneath, sending the aircraft into a vicious somersault.
(154) Yet these can be overcome if people unite to show their contempt for the cruel, vicious minority.
(155) Marina is a new Anne Frank, one of 80,000 frightened children caught in an ugly, vicious siege.
(156) There was a firm belief among old-time ferreters that the ferrets needed to be vicious and half-starved to do their work well.
(157) Abused children often grow up to abuse their own children - it's a vicious circle.
(158) Val was becoming increasingly worried by the spate of vicious attacks on horses.
(159) At first she thought he was just fooling around, but he quickly turned vicious.
(160) The negative outlook: Negativity creates a vicious circle all its own.
(161) All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon.
(162) The next morning the Daily Mail launched a vicious attack upon him,[Sentencedict.com] injudiciously using false facts as well as offering opinions.
(163) She even mentioned it to Mel with a vicious little laugh that afternoon, and he felt sorry for the girl.
(164) The Senator launched a vicious attack on the former President.
(165) For an absence of spin by a civil service press secretary substitute vicious turn off the wicket from Alastair Campbell.
(166) Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs, adding to a vicious circle of violence.
(167) The process goes into a vicious spiral, on a timescale of hundreds of thousands of years. Sentencedict.com
(168) Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign.
(169) Pursuit encourages further retreat, and so a vicious spiral is established which can destabilize a relationship.
(170) In all his plans, he had never let himself contemplate an outcome as vicious as that.
(171) It took them four hours to decide that this vicious, remorseless killer should die.
(172) When a vicious tackle leaves him blinded from a spinal injury, his life takes the predictable downward trajectory.
(173) Yes, sir, the vicious Canuck will not rest until the Republic is lying in its own blood and gore!
(174) His anger at her rejection was the vicious, righteous anger of one who felt betrayed.
(175) It has thus become a vicious circle of spoken mumbo jumbo.
(176) The parents' defence of their own interests was complicated by a vicious attack on Outram as the archetypal spinster.
(177) The vicious personal attack on him by Ernets Bevin and his humiliating defeat made it impossible for him to remain as leader.
(178) A simplified version of the vicious cycle - at its worst - is shown in Figure 1.
(179) They looked like thieves and thieves they were, Each one a vicious plunderer.
(180) Some one calculatingly vicious enough to mail death to people he had never met.
More similar words: officious, pernicious, judicious, malicious, capricious, suspicious, judiciously, avariciously, precious, spacious, specious, ferocious, salacious, conscious, sagacious, audacious, atrocious, rapacious, capacious, vivacious, fallacious, voracious, loquacious, mendacious, pugnacious, precocious, consciously, unconscious, subconscious, voraciously.