vicious
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- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ˈvɪʃəs/
Definition of vicious
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
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adj
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
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Savage and aggressive.
“He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.”
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(archaic)Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
“We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.”
“Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof”
“A murrain on you, Reverend Apse/I hope you get caught in a vicious moral lapse.”
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous.
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