VICIOUS in a Sentence
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65 example sentences for VICIOUS, such as:
1. The horse was huge and vicious.
2. He was set upon by a vicious dog.
3. She considered her doubts vicious.
4. His murder triggered vicious race riots.
5. Madame Thenardier was vicious with Cosette.
2. He was set upon by a vicious dog.
3. She considered her doubts vicious.
4. His murder triggered vicious race riots.
5. Madame Thenardier was vicious with Cosette.
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Meanings and Examples of VICIOUS
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vicious
a. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
a. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 Those consigned to the fields were the ones least willing or able to learn, the least energetic, the least honest and trustworthy, the most vicious and brutish.
2 The contrast between the dirty, hairy old man and the four neat, fastidious ladies was as great as though he were a grizzled, vicious old watchdog and they four small kittens.
3 The elevator, with its cupola on the ridge of a shingled roof, resembled a broad-shouldered man with a small, vicious, pointed head.
4 I shall choose the most vicious, like Juanita Haydock and myself, as the shepherds.
5 Carol tried to look at him, yet not look at the seeping blood, the crimson slash, the vicious scalpel.
6 The tilt of his head was full of character; his drawl was admirably vicious.
7 She considered her doubts vicious.
8 Suppose he were sued by some vicious shrieking woman for malpractice.
9 Ambrosch's feet had scarcely touched the ground when he lunged out with a vicious kick at Jake's stomach.
10 Of these professional tramps a great many had, of course, been shiftless and vicious all their lives.
11 Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation, artfully labelled with the name of liberty.
12 It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves.
13 Madame Thenardier was vicious with Cosette.
14 He was thought to be vicious, and no one knew what to do with him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
15 The name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared.
Example Sentence:
1 He was set upon by a vicious dog.
2 The police said that this was one of the most vicious attacks they'd ever seen.
3 The horse was huge and vicious.
4 These otters are particularly vicious beasties, with very sharp teeth.
5 His murder triggered vicious race riots.
6 Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man good throughout.
7 We must not only cease from the acts of sin, but we must get the vicious habits and inclinations weakened and destroyed.
8 It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about.
9 The beauty queen also spoke, defending herself against vicious attacks.
10 His insubordination is nothing but a vicious desire to make trouble.
11 Two grown men joined in a vicious hazing in the name of their college-fraternity chapter, beating a 45-year-old pledge so badly that he landed in the hospital.
12 The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.