亚洲网紅露点

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vicious

[ vish-uhs ]

adjective

  1. vicious gossip;

    a vicious attack.

    Synonyms:

  2. They all feared his vicious temper.

  3. (of an animal) having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition:

    a vicious bull.

  4. unpleasantly severe:

    a vicious headache.

  5. addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate:

    a vicious life.

    Synonyms: , , ,

    Antonyms:

  6. given or readily disposed to evil:

    a vicious criminal.

  7. a vicious deception.

  8. characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound:

    vicious reasoning.

  9. Archaic. morbid, foul, or noxious.


vicious

/ 藞惫瑟蕛蓹蝉 /

adjective

  1. wicked or cruel; villainous

    a vicious thug

  2. characterized by violence or ferocity

    a vicious blow

  3. informal.
    unpleasantly severe; harsh

    a vicious wind

  4. characterized by malice

    vicious lies

  5. (esp of dogs, horses, etc) ferocious or hostile; dangerous
  6. characterized by or leading to vice
  7. invalidated by defects; unsound

    a vicious inference

  8. obsolete.
    noxious or morbid

    a vicious exhalation

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞惫颈肠颈辞耻蝉苍别蝉蝉, noun
  • 藞惫颈肠颈辞耻蝉濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 惫颈顎僣颈辞耻蝉路濒测 adverb
  • 惫颈顎僣颈辞耻蝉路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 耻苍路惫颈顎僣颈辞耻蝉 adjective
  • un路惫颈顎僣颈辞耻蝉路濒测 adverb
  • un路惫颈顎僣颈辞耻蝉路苍别蝉蝉 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of vicious1

First recorded in 1300鈥50; Middle English or directly from Anglo-French, from Latin 惫颈迟颈艒蝉耻蝉, equivalent to viti(um) 鈥渇ault, defect, vice鈥 ( vice 1 ) + -艒蝉耻蝉 -ous
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of vicious1

C14: from Old French vicieus, from Latin 惫颈迟颈艒蝉耻蝉 full of faults, from vitium a defect
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They also made an effective job of developing the 2023 car, which was vicious at the start of the season, but much better by the end of it.

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Virgil is vicious and terrifying, and, as Bailey puts it in an interview, 鈥淭here is no quicker shorthand for a scumbag than someone who is beating up a defenseless woman.鈥

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All of this creates a vicious cycle which feeds even more pressure back into an overwhelmed system, while entrenching disadvantage and fuelling distrust.

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Because of threats against him and his family from Barrio 18, a vicious Salvadoran gang, Abrego Garc铆a had fled that country as a young teenager.

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鈥淭he Art of Personal Chaos鈥 is Gaga鈥檚 answer to the loud, vicious barrage of garbage we鈥檝e been flooded with.

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