Vicious means: Violent, destructive and cruel. Related words include wrong or criminal. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Vicious in practice.
Vicious in a sentence
Related words
Vicious meaning
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
- Savage and aggressive.
- Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
Example sentences (20)
But how can this be compared to totalitarianism -- in most people's eyes, a vicious, cruel, and repressive system?
There are many places in the world where dogs are viewed as vicious animals to be despised instead of friendly pets.
There is about a 50-50 chance that Trump will not win the nomination which will spark a round of vicious in-fighting.
The vicious assault came a day after tech executive was stabbed to death in the city’s Rincon Hill neighbourhood.
With the scoreline at 1-0, the Brazilian plucked a vicious volley out of the top corner to keep his side in the game.
It is thought that King Minos, famous for feeding his enemies to the vicious Minotaur, lived and ruled from this area.
Lord Young said: "It is clear from the injuries that this was a sustained and vicious attack involving a hammer.
They are forced to play a game of Russian roulette with live ammunition, and their vicious enemy enjoys terrifying them.
And when Crawford had the unified champ on the ropes and on the end of a vicious attack, Dock had rightfully seen enough.
For about a decade, Italy’s olive trees have been under vicious attack from the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa.
So it becomes this vicious cycle of, even if we can get some people, a portion of them are not going to stay.
Fossils suggest the fish – – was likely a vicious predator species of a type of ancient bony fish called tristichopterids.
The Skrull refugee planet had all of its air stolen by the Kree, plus heavy losses from the vicious attack.
Victims and survivors of violence in Upper Nile told the Commissioners horrific stories of vicious attacks.
Prosecutor Duncan Penny KC said it was a “pre-meditated, targeted and vicious attack on an unarmed woman”.
However, Synaptic Static, one of 's most vicious area-of-effect spells and one of the few that is available to bards at base.
This exposure normalizes abusive behavior, perpetuating the vicious cycle of violence across generations.
Freedom fighters and vicious raiders are among the various factions roaming the streets and countryside.
AN XL Bully has seriously injured a man and a woman in Mansfield in a vicious attack that saw a victim fall from a flat window.
A prison insider said: “Matthew Grady is a vicious bully and he has put himself in the spotlight by taking sides in a gang war.
Common combinations with vicious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the vicious 27×
- vicious cycle 26×
- vicious attack 17×
- and vicious 16×
- in vicious 14×
- vicious circle 10×
- of vicious 10×
- vicious and 10×
- to vicious 6×
- most vicious 6×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word vicious. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.