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.
