vicious
Example Sentences
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You never want to be their target, but watching their vicious crowd work from a safe distance mainly places you in danger of wetting yourself with a spit-take.
From Salon
"It is a vicious cycle. For some patients, being in hospital actually causes harm."
From BBC
Mr. Bush came to the realization—and only after 9/11, remember—that vicious rulers and their failed states generate disaffected people who harbor ill designs on the United States.
He had to show the mettle to come through a vicious blow to the head off Cameron Green when on 27.
From BBC
On one occasion, the crowd was particularly vicious and made me cry.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
