Definitions for: Vicious

[adj] marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"
[adj] (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
[adj] having the nature of vice

Webster (1913) Definition: Vi"cious, a. [OF. vicious, F. vicieux, fr. L.
vitiosus, fr. vitium vice. See Vice a fault.]
1. Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty;
imperfect.

Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. --Shak.

The title of these lords was vicious in its origin.
--Burke.

A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. --De
Quincey.

2. Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct;
depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples;
vicious conduct.

Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of
servants, on his vicious race. --Milton.

3. Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air,
water, etc. --Dryden.

4. Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language;
vicious idioms.

5. Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly;
refractory; as, a vicious horse.

6. Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.]

Syn: Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved. -- Vi"cious*ly,
adv. -- Vi"cious*ness, n.

Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, depraved, evil, fell, inhumane, malevolent, malicious, poisonous, roughshod, savage, venomous, wicked

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