viscous vs vicious
Definitions
adjective
- having the sticky properties of an adhesive
- having a relatively high resistance to flow
Examples
The process to make the cap includes positioning viscous plastic material in a mold to produce the desired retention member shape.
They based their predictions on one million-acre feet a year deficit of the Colorado River, massive amounts of evaporation from the lake and the viscous effects of a warming world from climate change.
In an earlier, pilot study, researchers used oral viscous budesonide to successfully treat two patients who had been unable to utilize fluticasone propionate.
Definitions
adjective
- having the nature of vice
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
- bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
Examples
These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man good throughout.
After she'd gone he had drawn up a scorecard, ranging her qualities on one side - her intellectual gifts and vivid, racy conversation - and on the other all the vicious things she'd said.
