vicious, adj.
freq. cnt. 6
freq. cnt. 6
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
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barbarous brutal cruel fell roughshod savage vicious
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"a barbarous crime""brutal beatings"
"cruel tortures"
"Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
"a savage slap"
"vicious kicks"
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having the nature of vice
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evil vicious
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marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
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poisonous venomous vicious
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"poisonous hate""venomous criticism"
"vicious gossip"
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bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
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condemnable criminal deplorable reprehensible vicious
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"a criminal waste of talent""a deplorable act of violence"
"adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
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