vicious
Example Sentences
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With less money on hand, businesses are limiting wage growth, pausing hiring and shedding employees, which means workers have less to spend, continuing the vicious cycle.
Mann was insistent, however, on breaking that vicious cycle.
From Los Angeles Times
Perhaps for that reason, the most vicious attacks on Mr. Youngkin usually come off as comically misplaced.
"The United States will ensure there is a steep cost for corrupt politicians who support vicious gangs and wreak terrorism on Haiti," it added, without elaborating.
From Barron's
In Donne’s time, anyone who made it to adulthood would have survived a gauntlet of vicious microbes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
