Explore Vicious through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like barbarous or wrong. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Vicious meaning
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
- Savage and aggressive.
- Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
Synonyms of Vicious
Using Vicious
- The main meaning on this page is: Violent, destructive and cruel. | Savage and aggressive. | Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
- Useful related words include: barbarous, wrong, reprehensible, deplorable.
- In the example corpus, vicious often appears in combinations such as: the vicious, vicious cycle, vicious attack.
Context around Vicious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vicious
- In this selection, "vicious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, way, longer, sid, attack, circle and girlfriend stand out and add context to how "vicious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a more vicious role as and a most vicious manner. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vicious" sits close to words such as constable, injection and joey, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vicious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And it’s a vicious circle,” Cook says. (8 words)
A vicious pump kick knocked Blue out of the ring. (10 words)
Bishop is the Sid Vicious clone with a good physique. (10 words)
And that is why there has been so much desperation in the campaigns in Lagos in the lead-up to March 18. The APC has played the ethnic card against the candidate of the Labour Party in a most vicious manner. (41 words)
After years of getting pushed hard to mixed success, Roman Reigns turned heel and revitalized his career with a more vicious role as the leader of The Bloodline alongside his real-life relatives Solo Sikoa and The Usos. (38 words)
Along with taking on water and being disconnected from the rest of the world due to a vicious storm, the oil rig has also been invaded by something that appears to not be human. (34 words)
But how can this be compared to totalitarianism -- in most people's eyes, a vicious, cruel, and repressive system? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
Spike and Vicious were once partners and friends, but when Spike began an affair with Vicious' girlfriend Julia and resolved to leave the Syndicate with her, Vicious attempted to have Julia kill Spike.
I look at soldiers during W.W. II, these guys came back to no counseling and that was like, vicious, vicious war.
In return for agreeing to record "My Way", Vicious had demanded that McLaren sign a sheet of paper declaring that he was no longer Vicious's manager.
A court heard how he caused “acute physical and mental suffering” to Jacob Crouch over six months, before assaulting him in a “vicious” fatal attack in December 2020.
A flighted up delivery and Garg charges onto it with a vicious hit to beat mid off for four.
After years of getting pushed hard to mixed success, Roman Reigns turned heel and revitalized his career with a more vicious role as the leader of The Bloodline alongside his real-life relatives Solo Sikoa and The Usos.
Along with taking on water and being disconnected from the rest of the world due to a vicious storm, the oil rig has also been invaded by something that appears to not be human.
A man who stabbed a friend at least 17 times during a vicious attack in Leicester city centre has been sentenced to a hospital order.
And it’s a vicious circle,” Cook says.
And that is why there has been so much desperation in the campaigns in Lagos in the lead-up to March 18. The APC has played the ethnic card against the candidate of the Labour Party in a most vicious manner.
And when Crawford had the unified champ on the ropes and on the end of a vicious attack, Dock had rightfully seen enough.
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.
As a result, a “vicious circle” of rising nominal interest rates, rising inflation, economic stagnation and increasing debt would arise.
A vicious pump kick knocked Blue out of the ring.
Before, during, and after him, we allowed the vicious cycle to keep us within its deadly grip.
Bishop is the Sid Vicious clone with a good physique.
But how can this be compared to totalitarianism -- in most people's eyes, a vicious, cruel, and repressive system?
But it does feed into a vicious circle of warming.
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois.
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×