Definition of vicious in English:

vicious

adjective ˈvɪʃəsˈvɪʃəs

1Deliberately cruel or violent.
恶毒的，恶意的；凶残的
a vicious assault
恶意的攻击。
Example sentencesExamples
- Are we wasting sympathy on vicious criminals when we insist on proper legal safeguards for them?
- Local radio news bulletins are jammed with reports of muggings and vicious petty criminals.
- ‘This is not just an attack on prison officers, but an attack on the entire criminal justice system by vicious thugs,’ he said.
- This was a cowardly, savage and vicious attack on a man who was utterly helpless.
- As I got older, I decided it might kill him to know that his only son was a vicious, nasty bully.
- He is a more serious and vicious monster these days.
- Rather, they are aggressively recruiting new criminals to their vicious gang.
- They are vicious, horrible, and those responsible should be severely punished.
- Don't tolerate the equally vicious dishonesty of adultery.
- People could look harmless and gorgeous on the outside when really they are vicious vile evil monsters on the inside.
- Police are hunting a vicious thug who inflicted serious injuries on an innocent man in daylight.
- Our most vicious tendencies are based around and triggered by hormonal impulses.
- The tabloids violated my family's privacy in a manner that I felt was vicious and indecent.
- Clearly this is counterintuitive to the more common assumption that large gangs of malevolent youths are vicious, destructive, soulless morons.
- It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy.
- There is a serious agenda behind this vicious journalism.
- The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
- Here is a man who is so vicious and evil that he makes Charles Manson look like Christie Brinkley.
- True, the film gets off on its own sense of creative cruelty, but it is nowhere near as vile or vicious as it thinks it is.
- While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control.
Synonyms
brutal, ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, inhuman, fierce, barbarous, barbaric, brutish, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous, villainous, murderous, homicidal, heinous, atrocious, diabolical, terrible, dreadful, awful, grim
British informal beastly
archaic fell, sanguinary
malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, spiteful, vindictive, venomous, poisonous, baleful, virulent, pernicious, backbiting, rancorous, caustic, mean, cruel, bitter, acrimonious, hostile, hate-filled, menacing, nasty, unpleasant, evil
defamatory, slanderous
informal bitchy, catty
literary malefic, maleficent
1. 1.1 (of an animal) wild and dangerous to people.
  （动物）凶猛的
  the dog was vicious and likely to bite
  Example sentencesExamples
  At last they were ready to disembark and to leave this hellhole of a place swarming with the vicious creatures of the night.
  I would like to warn cat owners about a vicious dog in the Long Ditton area.
  And these two people, two lawyers, had very, very vicious dogs.
  Then let him undistractedly restrain his mind, as a charioteer restrains his vicious horses.
  Animal Control Officers must deal with vicious and wild animals.
  Lady Hester evidently came from Somerset, where she acquired a formidable reputation for breaking in the most vicious horses.
  Although it looks a vicious creature, the wolf eel is in fact very timid, its main diet being the spiny sea urchin, the sharp spines of which have no effect on the wolf eel's tough jaws.
  It seems I am now safely in my home, far from the menacing arms of the vicious beast which drove me from the wild!
  Maybe it's that chihuahua next door which she mocks from the window: in her REM sleep visions, it's a vicious bull, ring through its nose.
  Before achieving this difficult task, he has to fight rebels in the forest, as well as Walken's private army, not to mention vicious monkeys with teeth like the American werewolf in London.
  When this scene is shown on film the viewer is expected to take the side of the innocent turtle hatchling against the vicious crab or bird.
  Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts.
  A great altar of bone and steel rested at the end, crouching like some vicious creature waiting for prey.
  Snow wolves were vicious, bloodthirsty wolves that roamed the forest.
  The female of the species is the most vicious creature known to exist.
  James held his sword in front of him in fear, and quickly stumbled backwards away from the vicious creature.
  The Jungle Book follows Mowgli's adventures as he flees a vicious tiger with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.
  He lifted it off, gingerly, like he was removing a possibly vicious pet rodent from his superior's suit; something not really his, but which somehow he was responsible for.
  Synonyms
  ferocious, savage
2. 1.2 Serious or dangerous.
  〈喻〉严重的；危险的
  a vicious flu bug
  危险的流感病毒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Clarence threw a vicious rabbit punch into Jack's kidney, and broke the contact to aim a cut at Jack's head.
  The fact ate at her like a vicious, degenerative disease that just wouldn't go away.
  I have to tell you, if you tried to email me, I've got some seriously vicious spam software that might have kept you from getting through at all.
  The seductive illusion of virtuous circle was transposed to the ugly reality of vicious financial death spiral.
  On the Raiders side, you get to see one of the most vicious, ugliest defenses known to man and NFL Films.
  It can be, at times, a nasty and vicious fight to make it all the way to the top of the mountain.
  This will be an ugly, vicious war with high casualties on both sides and lots of dead civilians.
  Suddenly they moved over a vicious looking chain fence and the base at White Sands, New Mexico was under them.
  Yet the spectre of drugs returned with vicious abandon culminating in his being imprisoned in 1991 and serving 5 years.
  It was enough to bring on an onslaught of particularly vicious flu for anyone.
  According to the Killarney based TD, vicious cutbacks are now being imposed in the school building programme.
  Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes.
  The smell was revolting, a vicious and evil stench… the stench of death, she crawled forward on her hands and knees and reached for the wall of the cell.
  A person can be successfully evil only if he or she can embody a peculiarly nasty blend of vicious evil and laudable good.
  I had that in Scotland over Christmas, along with the rest of the island, and it was indeed vicious and nasty and not an experience I would wish to repeat.
  I personally look forward to future lawsuits from Somalian, Japanese, and Mexican governments for the vicious inaccuracies of these horrible movies.
  As aggressive as enemy soldiers in the ‘Great War’, the flu proved a vicious killer.
  I didn't care whether it was ballet or flying a plane or driving a train; anything would break that vicious horrible cycle.
  The race officer used great imagination, setting several angles across the lake, but conditions were difficult with vicious squalls and considerable wind shifts.
2literary Immoral.
〈诗/文〉不道德的；罪恶的
every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish
世间的人，无论道德的还是不道德的，终将死亡。
Example sentencesExamples
- What had made me smile was his vicious and vile bigotry.
- As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
- Satan, who represents Evil, the utterly vicious, is yet not a monster because he also fits absolutely into a certain moral universe, a certain symbolic order.
Synonyms
immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine
3archaic (of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective.
〈古〉（语言，推理）不完善的，有缺陷的；谬误的

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'characterized by immorality'): from Old French vicious or Latin vitiosus, from vitium 'vice'.

vice from Middle English:
In the sense of immorality vice is from Latin vitium ‘vice’, also the source of vicious (Middle English). This originally meant ‘showing vice’ but was extended to mean ‘savage’ in descriptions of bad-tempered horses (early 18th century), and later (early 19th century) to mean ‘spiteful’. The tool sense was originally a word for a screw or winch that comes via Old French vis, from Latin vitis ‘vine’ from the spiral growth of the vine's tendrils.

Rhymes

adventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious

Definition of vicious in US English:

vicious

adjectiveˈviSHəsˈvɪʃəs

1Deliberately cruel or violent.
恶毒的，恶意的；凶残的
a vicious assault
恶意的攻击。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy.
- The tabloids violated my family's privacy in a manner that I felt was vicious and indecent.
- Local radio news bulletins are jammed with reports of muggings and vicious petty criminals.
- The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
- Rather, they are aggressively recruiting new criminals to their vicious gang.
- There is a serious agenda behind this vicious journalism.
- He is a more serious and vicious monster these days.
- They are vicious, horrible, and those responsible should be severely punished.
- Clearly this is counterintuitive to the more common assumption that large gangs of malevolent youths are vicious, destructive, soulless morons.
- True, the film gets off on its own sense of creative cruelty, but it is nowhere near as vile or vicious as it thinks it is.
- Police are hunting a vicious thug who inflicted serious injuries on an innocent man in daylight.
- This was a cowardly, savage and vicious attack on a man who was utterly helpless.
- People could look harmless and gorgeous on the outside when really they are vicious vile evil monsters on the inside.
- While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control.
- As I got older, I decided it might kill him to know that his only son was a vicious, nasty bully.
- Here is a man who is so vicious and evil that he makes Charles Manson look like Christie Brinkley.
- ‘This is not just an attack on prison officers, but an attack on the entire criminal justice system by vicious thugs,’ he said.
- Don't tolerate the equally vicious dishonesty of adultery.
- Our most vicious tendencies are based around and triggered by hormonal impulses.
- Are we wasting sympathy on vicious criminals when we insist on proper legal safeguards for them?
Synonyms
brutal, ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, inhuman, fierce, barbarous, barbaric, brutish, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous, villainous, murderous, homicidal, heinous, atrocious, diabolical, terrible, dreadful, awful, grim
malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, spiteful, vindictive, venomous, poisonous, baleful, virulent, pernicious, backbiting, rancorous, caustic, mean, cruel, bitter, acrimonious, hostile, hate-filled, menacing, nasty, unpleasant, evil
1. 1.1 (of an animal) wild and dangerous to people.
  （动物）凶猛的
  Example sentencesExamples
  It seems I am now safely in my home, far from the menacing arms of the vicious beast which drove me from the wild!
  And these two people, two lawyers, had very, very vicious dogs.
  Although it looks a vicious creature, the wolf eel is in fact very timid, its main diet being the spiny sea urchin, the sharp spines of which have no effect on the wolf eel's tough jaws.
  When this scene is shown on film the viewer is expected to take the side of the innocent turtle hatchling against the vicious crab or bird.
  The Jungle Book follows Mowgli's adventures as he flees a vicious tiger with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.
  A great altar of bone and steel rested at the end, crouching like some vicious creature waiting for prey.
  The female of the species is the most vicious creature known to exist.
  Maybe it's that chihuahua next door which she mocks from the window: in her REM sleep visions, it's a vicious bull, ring through its nose.
  Snow wolves were vicious, bloodthirsty wolves that roamed the forest.
  I would like to warn cat owners about a vicious dog in the Long Ditton area.
  Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts.
  Animal Control Officers must deal with vicious and wild animals.
  Then let him undistractedly restrain his mind, as a charioteer restrains his vicious horses.
  James held his sword in front of him in fear, and quickly stumbled backwards away from the vicious creature.
  Lady Hester evidently came from Somerset, where she acquired a formidable reputation for breaking in the most vicious horses.
  At last they were ready to disembark and to leave this hellhole of a place swarming with the vicious creatures of the night.
  He lifted it off, gingerly, like he was removing a possibly vicious pet rodent from his superior's suit; something not really his, but which somehow he was responsible for.
  Before achieving this difficult task, he has to fight rebels in the forest, as well as Walken's private army, not to mention vicious monkeys with teeth like the American werewolf in London.
  Synonyms
  ferocious, savage
2. 1.2 Serious or dangerous.
  〈喻〉严重的；危险的
  a vicious flu bug
  危险的流感病毒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The smell was revolting, a vicious and evil stench… the stench of death, she crawled forward on her hands and knees and reached for the wall of the cell.
  I didn't care whether it was ballet or flying a plane or driving a train; anything would break that vicious horrible cycle.
  I personally look forward to future lawsuits from Somalian, Japanese, and Mexican governments for the vicious inaccuracies of these horrible movies.
  This will be an ugly, vicious war with high casualties on both sides and lots of dead civilians.
  On the Raiders side, you get to see one of the most vicious, ugliest defenses known to man and NFL Films.
  Suddenly they moved over a vicious looking chain fence and the base at White Sands, New Mexico was under them.
  I have to tell you, if you tried to email me, I've got some seriously vicious spam software that might have kept you from getting through at all.
  According to the Killarney based TD, vicious cutbacks are now being imposed in the school building programme.
  It was enough to bring on an onslaught of particularly vicious flu for anyone.
  Clarence threw a vicious rabbit punch into Jack's kidney, and broke the contact to aim a cut at Jack's head.
  It can be, at times, a nasty and vicious fight to make it all the way to the top of the mountain.
  I had that in Scotland over Christmas, along with the rest of the island, and it was indeed vicious and nasty and not an experience I would wish to repeat.
  The seductive illusion of virtuous circle was transposed to the ugly reality of vicious financial death spiral.
  Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes.
  The fact ate at her like a vicious, degenerative disease that just wouldn't go away.
  The race officer used great imagination, setting several angles across the lake, but conditions were difficult with vicious squalls and considerable wind shifts.
  Yet the spectre of drugs returned with vicious abandon culminating in his being imprisoned in 1991 and serving 5 years.
  As aggressive as enemy soldiers in the ‘Great War’, the flu proved a vicious killer.
  A person can be successfully evil only if he or she can embody a peculiarly nasty blend of vicious evil and laudable good.
2literary Immoral.
〈诗/文〉不道德的；罪恶的
every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish
世间的人，无论道德的还是不道德的，终将死亡。
Example sentencesExamples
- What had made me smile was his vicious and vile bigotry.
- Satan, who represents Evil, the utterly vicious, is yet not a monster because he also fits absolutely into a certain moral universe, a certain symbolic order.
- As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Synonyms
immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine
3archaic (of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective.
〈古〉（语言，推理）不完善的，有缺陷的；谬误的

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘characterized by immorality’): from Old French vicious or Latin vitiosus, from vitium ‘vise’.

词汇	vicious
释义	Definition of vicious in English: vicious adjective ˈvɪʃəsˈvɪʃəs 1Deliberately cruel or violent. 恶毒的，恶意的；凶残的 a vicious assault 恶意的攻击。 Example sentencesExamples Are we wasting sympathy on vicious criminals when we insist on proper legal safeguards for them? Local radio news bulletins are jammed with reports of muggings and vicious petty criminals. ‘This is not just an attack on prison officers, but an attack on the entire criminal justice system by vicious thugs,’ he said. This was a cowardly, savage and vicious attack on a man who was utterly helpless. As I got older, I decided it might kill him to know that his only son was a vicious, nasty bully. He is a more serious and vicious monster these days. Rather, they are aggressively recruiting new criminals to their vicious gang. They are vicious, horrible, and those responsible should be severely punished. Don't tolerate the equally vicious dishonesty of adultery. People could look harmless and gorgeous on the outside when really they are vicious vile evil monsters on the inside. Police are hunting a vicious thug who inflicted serious injuries on an innocent man in daylight. Our most vicious tendencies are based around and triggered by hormonal impulses. The tabloids violated my family's privacy in a manner that I felt was vicious and indecent. Clearly this is counterintuitive to the more common assumption that large gangs of malevolent youths are vicious, destructive, soulless morons. It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy. There is a serious agenda behind this vicious journalism. The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful. Here is a man who is so vicious and evil that he makes Charles Manson look like Christie Brinkley. True, the film gets off on its own sense of creative cruelty, but it is nowhere near as vile or vicious as it thinks it is. While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control. Synonyms brutal, ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, inhuman, fierce, barbarous, barbaric, brutish, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous, villainous, murderous, homicidal, heinous, atrocious, diabolical, terrible, dreadful, awful, grim British informal beastly archaic fell, sanguinary malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, spiteful, vindictive, venomous, poisonous, baleful, virulent, pernicious, backbiting, rancorous, caustic, mean, cruel, bitter, acrimonious, hostile, hate-filled, menacing, nasty, unpleasant, evil defamatory, slanderous informal bitchy, catty literary malefic, maleficent 1.1 (of an animal) wild and dangerous to people. （动物）凶猛的 the dog was vicious and likely to bite Example sentencesExamples At last they were ready to disembark and to leave this hellhole of a place swarming with the vicious creatures of the night. I would like to warn cat owners about a vicious dog in the Long Ditton area. And these two people, two lawyers, had very, very vicious dogs. Then let him undistractedly restrain his mind, as a charioteer restrains his vicious horses. Animal Control Officers must deal with vicious and wild animals. Lady Hester evidently came from Somerset, where she acquired a formidable reputation for breaking in the most vicious horses. Although it looks a vicious creature, the wolf eel is in fact very timid, its main diet being the spiny sea urchin, the sharp spines of which have no effect on the wolf eel's tough jaws. It seems I am now safely in my home, far from the menacing arms of the vicious beast which drove me from the wild! Maybe it's that chihuahua next door which she mocks from the window: in her REM sleep visions, it's a vicious bull, ring through its nose. Before achieving this difficult task, he has to fight rebels in the forest, as well as Walken's private army, not to mention vicious monkeys with teeth like the American werewolf in London. When this scene is shown on film the viewer is expected to take the side of the innocent turtle hatchling against the vicious crab or bird. Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts. A great altar of bone and steel rested at the end, crouching like some vicious creature waiting for prey. Snow wolves were vicious, bloodthirsty wolves that roamed the forest. The female of the species is the most vicious creature known to exist. James held his sword in front of him in fear, and quickly stumbled backwards away from the vicious creature. The Jungle Book follows Mowgli's adventures as he flees a vicious tiger with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. He lifted it off, gingerly, like he was removing a possibly vicious pet rodent from his superior's suit; something not really his, but which somehow he was responsible for. Synonyms ferocious, savage 1.2 Serious or dangerous. 〈喻〉严重的；危险的 a vicious flu bug 危险的流感病毒。 Example sentencesExamples Clarence threw a vicious rabbit punch into Jack's kidney, and broke the contact to aim a cut at Jack's head. The fact ate at her like a vicious, degenerative disease that just wouldn't go away. I have to tell you, if you tried to email me, I've got some seriously vicious spam software that might have kept you from getting through at all. The seductive illusion of virtuous circle was transposed to the ugly reality of vicious financial death spiral. On the Raiders side, you get to see one of the most vicious, ugliest defenses known to man and NFL Films. It can be, at times, a nasty and vicious fight to make it all the way to the top of the mountain. This will be an ugly, vicious war with high casualties on both sides and lots of dead civilians. Suddenly they moved over a vicious looking chain fence and the base at White Sands, New Mexico was under them. Yet the spectre of drugs returned with vicious abandon culminating in his being imprisoned in 1991 and serving 5 years. It was enough to bring on an onslaught of particularly vicious flu for anyone. According to the Killarney based TD, vicious cutbacks are now being imposed in the school building programme. Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes. The smell was revolting, a vicious and evil stench… the stench of death, she crawled forward on her hands and knees and reached for the wall of the cell. A person can be successfully evil only if he or she can embody a peculiarly nasty blend of vicious evil and laudable good. I had that in Scotland over Christmas, along with the rest of the island, and it was indeed vicious and nasty and not an experience I would wish to repeat. I personally look forward to future lawsuits from Somalian, Japanese, and Mexican governments for the vicious inaccuracies of these horrible movies. As aggressive as enemy soldiers in the ‘Great War’, the flu proved a vicious killer. I didn't care whether it was ballet or flying a plane or driving a train; anything would break that vicious horrible cycle. The race officer used great imagination, setting several angles across the lake, but conditions were difficult with vicious squalls and considerable wind shifts. 2literary Immoral. 〈诗/文〉不道德的；罪恶的 every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish 世间的人，无论道德的还是不道德的，终将死亡。 Example sentencesExamples What had made me smile was his vicious and vile bigotry. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Satan, who represents Evil, the utterly vicious, is yet not a monster because he also fits absolutely into a certain moral universe, a certain symbolic order. Synonyms immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine 3archaic (of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective. 〈古〉（语言，推理）不完善的，有缺陷的；谬误的 Origin Middle English (in the sense 'characterized by immorality'): from Old French vicious or Latin vitiosus, from vitium 'vice'. vice from Middle English: In the sense of immorality vice is from Latin vitium ‘vice’, also the source of vicious (Middle English). This originally meant ‘showing vice’ but was extended to mean ‘savage’ in descriptions of bad-tempered horses (early 18th century), and later (early 19th century) to mean ‘spiteful’. The tool sense was originally a word for a screw or winch that comes via Old French vis, from Latin vitis ‘vine’ from the spiral growth of the vine's tendrils. Rhymes adventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious Definition of vicious in US English: vicious adjectiveˈviSHəsˈvɪʃəs 1Deliberately cruel or violent. 恶毒的，恶意的；凶残的 a vicious assault 恶意的攻击。 Example sentencesExamples It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy. The tabloids violated my family's privacy in a manner that I felt was vicious and indecent. Local radio news bulletins are jammed with reports of muggings and vicious petty criminals. The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful. Rather, they are aggressively recruiting new criminals to their vicious gang. There is a serious agenda behind this vicious journalism. He is a more serious and vicious monster these days. They are vicious, horrible, and those responsible should be severely punished. Clearly this is counterintuitive to the more common assumption that large gangs of malevolent youths are vicious, destructive, soulless morons. True, the film gets off on its own sense of creative cruelty, but it is nowhere near as vile or vicious as it thinks it is. Police are hunting a vicious thug who inflicted serious injuries on an innocent man in daylight. This was a cowardly, savage and vicious attack on a man who was utterly helpless. People could look harmless and gorgeous on the outside when really they are vicious vile evil monsters on the inside. While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control. As I got older, I decided it might kill him to know that his only son was a vicious, nasty bully. Here is a man who is so vicious and evil that he makes Charles Manson look like Christie Brinkley. ‘This is not just an attack on prison officers, but an attack on the entire criminal justice system by vicious thugs,’ he said. Don't tolerate the equally vicious dishonesty of adultery. Our most vicious tendencies are based around and triggered by hormonal impulses. Are we wasting sympathy on vicious criminals when we insist on proper legal safeguards for them? Synonyms brutal, ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, inhuman, fierce, barbarous, barbaric, brutish, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous, villainous, murderous, homicidal, heinous, atrocious, diabolical, terrible, dreadful, awful, grim malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, spiteful, vindictive, venomous, poisonous, baleful, virulent, pernicious, backbiting, rancorous, caustic, mean, cruel, bitter, acrimonious, hostile, hate-filled, menacing, nasty, unpleasant, evil 1.1 (of an animal) wild and dangerous to people. （动物）凶猛的 Example sentencesExamples It seems I am now safely in my home, far from the menacing arms of the vicious beast which drove me from the wild! And these two people, two lawyers, had very, very vicious dogs. Although it looks a vicious creature, the wolf eel is in fact very timid, its main diet being the spiny sea urchin, the sharp spines of which have no effect on the wolf eel's tough jaws. When this scene is shown on film the viewer is expected to take the side of the innocent turtle hatchling against the vicious crab or bird. The Jungle Book follows Mowgli's adventures as he flees a vicious tiger with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. A great altar of bone and steel rested at the end, crouching like some vicious creature waiting for prey. The female of the species is the most vicious creature known to exist. Maybe it's that chihuahua next door which she mocks from the window: in her REM sleep visions, it's a vicious bull, ring through its nose. Snow wolves were vicious, bloodthirsty wolves that roamed the forest. I would like to warn cat owners about a vicious dog in the Long Ditton area. Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts. Animal Control Officers must deal with vicious and wild animals. Then let him undistractedly restrain his mind, as a charioteer restrains his vicious horses. James held his sword in front of him in fear, and quickly stumbled backwards away from the vicious creature. Lady Hester evidently came from Somerset, where she acquired a formidable reputation for breaking in the most vicious horses. At last they were ready to disembark and to leave this hellhole of a place swarming with the vicious creatures of the night. He lifted it off, gingerly, like he was removing a possibly vicious pet rodent from his superior's suit; something not really his, but which somehow he was responsible for. Before achieving this difficult task, he has to fight rebels in the forest, as well as Walken's private army, not to mention vicious monkeys with teeth like the American werewolf in London. Synonyms ferocious, savage 1.2 Serious or dangerous. 〈喻〉严重的；危险的 a vicious flu bug 危险的流感病毒。 Example sentencesExamples The smell was revolting, a vicious and evil stench… the stench of death, she crawled forward on her hands and knees and reached for the wall of the cell. I didn't care whether it was ballet or flying a plane or driving a train; anything would break that vicious horrible cycle. I personally look forward to future lawsuits from Somalian, Japanese, and Mexican governments for the vicious inaccuracies of these horrible movies. This will be an ugly, vicious war with high casualties on both sides and lots of dead civilians. On the Raiders side, you get to see one of the most vicious, ugliest defenses known to man and NFL Films. Suddenly they moved over a vicious looking chain fence and the base at White Sands, New Mexico was under them. I have to tell you, if you tried to email me, I've got some seriously vicious spam software that might have kept you from getting through at all. According to the Killarney based TD, vicious cutbacks are now being imposed in the school building programme. It was enough to bring on an onslaught of particularly vicious flu for anyone. Clarence threw a vicious rabbit punch into Jack's kidney, and broke the contact to aim a cut at Jack's head. It can be, at times, a nasty and vicious fight to make it all the way to the top of the mountain. I had that in Scotland over Christmas, along with the rest of the island, and it was indeed vicious and nasty and not an experience I would wish to repeat. The seductive illusion of virtuous circle was transposed to the ugly reality of vicious financial death spiral. Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes. The fact ate at her like a vicious, degenerative disease that just wouldn't go away. The race officer used great imagination, setting several angles across the lake, but conditions were difficult with vicious squalls and considerable wind shifts. Yet the spectre of drugs returned with vicious abandon culminating in his being imprisoned in 1991 and serving 5 years. As aggressive as enemy soldiers in the ‘Great War’, the flu proved a vicious killer. A person can be successfully evil only if he or she can embody a peculiarly nasty blend of vicious evil and laudable good. 2literary Immoral. 〈诗/文〉不道德的；罪恶的 every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish 世间的人，无论道德的还是不道德的，终将死亡。 Example sentencesExamples What had made me smile was his vicious and vile bigotry. Satan, who represents Evil, the utterly vicious, is yet not a monster because he also fits absolutely into a certain moral universe, a certain symbolic order. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Synonyms immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine 3archaic (of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective. 〈古〉（语言，推理）不完善的，有缺陷的；谬误的 Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘characterized by immorality’): from Old French vicious or Latin vitiosus, from vitium ‘vise’.
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