Definition of Vicious

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Vicious

Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.

Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.

Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.

Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

Bitter; spiteful; malignant.

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Vicious Quotations

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas Paine

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Desmond Tutu

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. Kissinger

Vicious Translations

vicious in Dutch is hatelijk, boosaardig, kwaadaardig
vicious in French is vicieux, perfide
vicious in Italian is vizioso
vicious in Latin is vitiosus
vicious in Spanish is vicioso, depravado
vicious in Swedish is lastbar, vanartig, ilsken

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