vicious

Definition:
1. Violent and cruel.
2. Aggressive and dangerous.
3. Very bad or severe.

Use 'vicious' in a sentence:

• 1. That second night, Sid Vicious chucked a bottle at the stage.
• 2. Most of the countries have suffered far more severe symptoms, from Libya's civil war to the vicious oppression seen in Syria and Yemen.
• 3. It be comes a vicious cycle.
• 4. The press launched another vicious onslaught on the president.
• 5. Perlow calls this vicious cycle the "cycle of responsiveness": Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.
• 6. It looks like a vicious circle.
• 7. The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard.
• 8. The circulation of gossip is vicious.
• 9. There is a vicious circle going on& prosperity, surplus, depression.
• 10. Their loss was partly due to a vicious price war between manufacturers that has cut margins to the bone.
• 11. In other words, a vicious circle.
• 12. He authored a vicious personal attack on his rival.
• 13. See the vicious cycle here?
• 14. Some of them might fall into a vicious cycle of borrowing to return debts when property prices drop or liquidity2 dries up, it said.
• 15. And so the vicious cycle begins.
• 16. He was a vicious gossip.
• 17. The vicious kleptomaniac was eventually overthrown after losing his cold war sponsors in the west.
• 18. What a vicious trick he played!
• 19. He moves dangerously through a world of ruthless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money.
• 20. The attackers launched another vicious onslaught on their victim.
• 21. Thailand can be a vicious place.
• 22. It really has become a vicious circle.
• 23. She wrote me a vicious letter.
• 24. There was a vicious and vitriolic attack on him in one of the Sunday newspapers two weeks ago.
• 25. Vicious animals must be kept in cages.
• 26. It is a deliberate, nasty and vicious attack on a young man's character.
• 27. Josh bares his pointy teeth in a vicious snarl.
• 28. A negative spiral ( or vicious cycle) occurs when the spiraling has an increasingly disintegrative effect.
• 29. The modes of propaganda are opportunistic and the polemics can be vicious.
• 30. How vicious his intentions are!
• 31. That can create a vicious circle.
• 32. The girl was shocked by the vicious tone in his voice.
• 33. The chimp had a sweet and tactile side but could also be violent, messy and vicious.
• 34. Beware of vicious dog.
• 35. The blow was so sudden and vicious that he dropped to his knees.
• 36. The more pesticides are used, the more resistant the insects become so the more pesticides have to be used. It's a vicious circle.
• 37. He was a cruel and vicious man.
• 38. She has a vicious temper.
• 39. He suffered a vicious attack by a gang of white youths.
• 40. Such a vicious lie could be nothing but a stab in the back.
• 41. His death triggered a vicious prison riot.
• 42. A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.
• 43. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, outwardly kind but inwardly vicious!
• 44. The Home Secretary aims to break the vicious circle between disadvantage and crime.
• 45. We need to break the vicious cycle of violence and counterviolence.
• 46. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.