vicious
Example Sentences
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My legs were shaking because those trees and I hadn’t chatted in quite a while, and I wasn’t sure how angry and maybe vicious they were going to be.
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As soon as they left the tree cover, they were hit by a vicious blast of wind.
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Then, when a wildfire comes through and natives begin to regrow, they’re chomped back down, creating a vicious cycle.
From Los Angeles Times
“The EU may be trapped in a vicious circle,” the ECA said.
Every few centuries, some charlatan, some crawling, vicious soul, would try to get close to the Glimourie Tree—to steal it, to take it for their own.
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