(a.) Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
(a.) Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
(a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(3) When he attacked New York, his vicious crusade was as much against skyscrapers as it was against western values and the US.
(4) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(5) This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a five-time deported Mexican with a long criminal record, who was forced back into the United States because they didn’t want him in Mexico.
(6) Each of these reactions can increase the perception of chest pain, contributing to a vicious cycle that exacerbates both the chest pain and the anxiety.
(7) This vicious circle should be broken rather by finding optimal conditions than by a middle course determined by experimental requirements, economical frames and general notions about what may be good for the animal.
(8) In spite of the relatively large sample and the given number of variables the problem of the vicious circle might occur.
(9) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
(10) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
(11) According to the International Crisis Group , tensions within and between the two major political parties, competing claims to the presidency between northern and Niger Delta politicians and along religious lines, along with inadequate preparations by the electoral commission and apparent bias by security agencies, suggest the country is heading toward a volatile and vicious electoral contest.
(12) A vicious circle with the increased resistance as the key factor can be identified.
(13) This vicious cycle could be interrupted by segmental epidural anesthesia with procaine as well as by blockade of sympathoexcitation at the central nervous level with clonidine in anesthetized dogs.
(14) This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims – and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family.” Wood was executed for shooting to death Debra Dietz, his former girlfriend, and her father, Eugene Dietz, in Tucson in 1989.
(15) Spicer, who so viciously attacked the press on Saturday, had to hurriedly walk back the comments of his boss when Trump, during an interview with the Washington Post before the inauguration, promised “insurance for everybody”.
(16) Using mathematical models of the population dynamics of T helper cells, HIV and other pathogens we address three facets of the interactions between HIV and other pathogens: enhanced HIV replication due to immune stimulation by other pathogens; modified immune control of other pathogens due to immunosuppression by HIV; and the vicious circle formed by positive feedback between these two effects.
(17) Since the initially peaceful demonstrations against his regime began more than three years ago, he has proved himself, by turns, foolish, craven and vicious.
(18) He said US prisons were tough and safe enough to handle the most vicious al-Qaida terrorist suspects now held at Guantánamo.
(19) When Cruise announced last October that he was suing Bauer, his lawyer, Bert Fields, described the claim that the actor had deserted his daughter as a “vicious lie”.
(20) Meanwhile, people in poor countries are already battling its vicious storms.
Vitious
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Vitiousness
Example Sentences:
(1) This vitious cycle may be interrupted by vasodilators.
(2) Authors describe the microcircular haemodynamics of Sudeck's syndrom together with the characteristic vitious circle of pain, rigidity, oedema and osteoporosis.
(3) The insufficient circulation primarily of the gut and the liver causes even those forms of shock which are not initially triggered by endotoxin to develop into the ominous endotoxin shock unless rapid and effective therapy interrupts this vitious circle.