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viciously

adverb as in cruelly

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In its subliminal, pulsing ambiguity, the ending seems to carry the key to the whole book — this vicious, knife-sharp book — but it’s so hard to figure out just what that key is.

From Vox

We’re in a vicious cycle with appliances, and it’s partly because there aren’t enough people with the knowledge to repair them.

Until then, our businesses continue to be trapped in a vicious cycle – providing benefits to Google’s competing services while rendering our own services obsolete in the long run.

We have it in our power to begin to turn this vicious cycle — and it is a vicious cycle — into something more virtuous.

“I got caught up in the gig economy’s nonsense, and I got caught in a vicious cycle,” said Copridge, who begins every week $260 underwater because he rents a Chevrolet Bolt for work.

The best that can be said for these budding radicals is that at least they sincerely hate the thing they so viciously attack.

Of gays being persecuted viciously in countries like Russia and Iran?

“They treated me like an alien,” she says, explaining that North Koreans are viciously stereotyped in South Korea.

In 2004, two Sikh men were viciously beaten by young white assailants while walking on the sidewalk.

Nor is it where the gunman then viciously pistol whips his victim repeatedly for having the temerity not to die.

The needle of the archdruidress broke, as she shook her head viciously at the scoffer.

The Arab pricked his ears, swished his long and arched tail viciously, and showed the whites of his eyes.

"I wonder if she has ever tried to condense rudeness into an epigram," said Isabel viciously, pausing in her narrative.

"So ye'll just be by yoursel' the morn, unless they put Dicky Tamson owre aside you," he added viciously.

With the coming up of Colonel Field the Indians immediately gave ground, then charged most viciously as our men pursued.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to viciously, such as: brutally, ferociously, maliciously, savagely, wickedly, and depravedly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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