vicious

How To Use vicious In A Sentence

• 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.
• It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles. Times, Sunday Times
• Another is a rangy assemblage of vicious thorns, called myrrh, a second gift of the Magi. NYT > Home Page
• Combined with customers who would steer clear of Detroit brands because of uncertainty surrounding maintenance warranties, a messy bankruptcy could have have kicked off a vicious downward spiral that could have ended in liquidation and enormous job losses. Wonk Room » If We Had Let GM Go Bankrupt Last November, We Could Have Lost Another Million Jobs
• This has provoked anger among some Labour veterans who spent the Eighties in vicious battles with the impossibilist left to return the party to electability. Despite their hopes of a great revival, the left got left behind
• He grabbed a fistful of that lush cashew-colored hair that made Pink Jenny so popular, twisted her arm behind her in a vicious half nelson, and dragged her up to my face.
• He gave the dog a vicious blow with his stick.
• College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.