vicious
Example Sentences
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He went off to the nearest shelter, and returned with an ashwood spear tipped with a vicious basalt point, and what seemed to be a length of triple-thickness reindeer hide.
From Literature
If Downing was a vicious man, he suited his times.
The only exception came when Reaves drove in the lane, wrapped a pass around his back and found Ayton cutting down the lane for a vicious two-handed dunk.
From Los Angeles Times
Ayer, in a report to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, called her a “rich and vicious parasite.”
He sticks to a thing, but he isn’t vicious.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
