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Vicious \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.
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Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. --Shak.
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The title of these lords was vicious in its origin.
--Burke.
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A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. --De
Quincey.
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2. Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct;
depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples;
vicious conduct.
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Who . . . heard this heavy curse,
Servant of servants, on his vicious race. --Milton.
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3. Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air,
water, etc. --Dryden.
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4. Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language;
vicious idioms.
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5. Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly;
refractory; as, a vicious horse.
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6. Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.]
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Syn: Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved.
[1913 Webster] -- Vi"cious*ly, adv. --
Vi"cious*ness, n.
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vicious
adj 1: (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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
roughshod, savage, vicious]

2: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious]

3: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal
waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery
is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn:
condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible,
vicious]

4: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous
hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn:
poisonous, venomous, vicious]
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vicious [viʃəs]
lasterhaft

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vicious [viʃəs]
méchant; perfide
malin

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vicious

bûnös
erkölcstelen
gonosz
harapós
helytelen
hibás
romlott
rossz
rosszindulatú


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vicious [viʃəs]
boosaardig; hatelijk; kwaadaardig; snood; te kwader trouw; vals
kwaadaardig; kwaadaardig (med.)

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vicious [viʃəs]
malicioso, malvado, perverso

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vicious [viʃəs]
astuto

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vicious

bösartig; brutal; teuflisch adj
vicious

lasterhaft adj
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199 Moby Thesaurus words for "vicious":
Draconian, Tartarean, abominable, acrimonious, amoral, animal,
anthropophagous, arrant, atrocious, bad, baleful, baneful,
barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, bestial, bitchy, bitter, black,
blamable, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, concentrated,
contaminated, corroding, corrosive, corrupt, corrupting,
corruptive, counterproductive, criminal, cruel, cruel-hearted,
damaging, damnable, dark, deadly, defamatory, degenerate, degraded,
degrading, deleterious, demoniac, demoniacal, depraved, desperate,
despiteful, detrimental, devilish, diabolic, diabolical,
disadvantageous, disgraceful, disserviceable, distressing, evil,
execrable, exquisite, faulty, fearful, fell, feral, ferine,
ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, flagrant, foul,
furious, harmful, hateful, heinous, hellish, hurtful, ill, immoral,
improper, inaccurate, inauspicious, inexpedient, infamous,
inferior, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, injurious,
invalid, kill-crazy, knavish, lethal, low, malefic, malevolent,
malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, mischievous,
miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious,
noisome, noncivilized, nonmoral, noxious, obnoxious, odious,
ominous, opprobrious, peccant, pernicious, perverse, perverted,
pitiless, poisonous, poor, prejudicial, profligate, putrid,
rancorous, rank, ravening, reprehensible, reprobate, rotten,
ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage,
scandalous, scatheful, septic, severe, shameful, shameless,
sharkish, sinful, sinister, slanderous, slavering, spiteful,
steeped in vice, subhuman, tameless, terrible, toxic, truculent,
unchristian, uncivilized, unfavorable, unforgivable, ungentle,
unhealthy, unhuman, unkind, unmoral, unpardonable, unpleasant,
unprincipled, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, untamed, untoward,
unworthy, vehement, venal, venenate, veneniferous, venenous,
venomous, vice-laden, vice-prone, vile, villainous, vindictive,
violent, virulent, wicked, wild, wolfish, wrong



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