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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(211) The Home Secretary aims to break the vicious circle between disadvantage and crime.
(212) He has a vicious competitive streak that rivals the bounty hunter known as Michael Jordan.
(213) And it may lead to a vicious cycle in which women are first objectified and, as a result, underperform, confirming the notion that women's looks are more important than what they can do.
(214) The vicious inflation of JIN Dynasty was owed to the surplus fiscal demands and no credit and the fault of money measures.
(215) But the fundamental and most vicious, swinish, murderous, and unchangeable fact is that we totally misunderstand each other -- we operate on alien wave lengths.
(216) Discontent and populism may now form a vicious circle, both causing economic failure and worsening it.
(217) I worry that when and if the recession is well and truly over, there is a serious danger of another round of vicious inflation.
(218) These documents were designed to limit and eliminate the vicious Equity, Maritime or Admiralty Law which was what we revolted against as Our Revolution against the totalitarianism of England.
(219) Back in Beijing, Zhang described the western criticism of him as a vicious circle.
(220) I played with it constantly and I continued to add to it until one dark day when my good friend Andy fell on the base during a vicious pillow fight, completely destroying the whole thing.
(221) Finally, brings forward suggestions and countermeasures of a vicious spiral of duplicate construction and excess capacity.
(222) Surface heating provides temperature maintenance for vicious products and condensation control for hydroscopic granular or air-borne media.
(223) And that was the vicious and voluble end of the seven young parrots.
(224) A negative spiral ( or vicious cycle ) occurs when the spiraling has an increasingly disintegrative effect.
(225) And so when the woman tried to repeat one more time the same vicious argument, my mother used drastic measure in her unappealable manner.
(226) Such a vicious lie could be nothing but a stab in the back.
(227) Deflation are long bone, and a vicious inflation is a toothless tiger.sentencedict.com/vicious.html
(228) The judge shall dismiss from the ring any shy or vicious Giant Schnauzer.
(229) A vicious separatist campaign launched by rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been raging since 1984.
(230) At depths of 100 feet in a pitch-black cave, it's incredibly easy to lose your bearings, have problems with your air supply - or even be eaten by some big, vicious creature.
(231) The real restrictive factor is the poverty of education right, as a result of the unfair system, which leads to a vicious spiral for rural area in poverty.
(232) He pictured to himself persons vicious and unhappy, whom he would help in word and in deed; he pictured oppressors whose victims he would rescue.
(233) This does NOT mean the breed is vicious—quite the contrary, the doberman must be mentally stable yet always alert and ready to defend its master and home.
(234) Tanizakijunichirou, well-known for the various' deformed and even vicious characters created in his fictive world in his early works, sets his keynote in the pursuit of "women of eternity".
(235) This novel by Richard Wright was incredible, and shocked the entire nation by making a seemingly vicious black man (and a murderer) a hero , or at least an anti-hero .
(236) From here on, Malik is protected and schooled by Luciani, perhaps too efficiently; in a heartbreaking late scene, the pupil spurns his mentor, like a vicious Prince Hal disdaining Falstaff.
(237) To break this vicious cycle, we must find our happiness somewhere else - within ourselves.
(238) You couldn't know you were dating a vicious , murdering sociopath.
(239) College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
(240) This begins a vicious cycle, leaving women disadvantaged for life.
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