How To Use Vicious In A Sentence
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These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
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Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man good throughout.
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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.
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It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another is a rangy assemblage of vicious thorns, called myrrh, a second gift of the Magi.
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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.
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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
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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.
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He gave the dog a vicious blow with his stick.
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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.
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While the far west may have the more vicious winter temperatures, often subceeding minus 40 degrees C, the northeast is infamous for its radically changeable winter atmospherics.
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More than half of the incidents involved vicious dogs.
The Sun
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Pleasure seeking often enslaves people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
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What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket").
How to Sound Presidential
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There is also hassling and teasing and good-natured joshing that to an adult looks like vicious bullying but to a child is something different.
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He was one of the few artists to impress the ordinarily vicious panel of judges, and the only criticism the toughest of them could find was with the Norwegian's tousled, gap-toothed appearance.
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The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).
The Heirloom City
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The five of them forge an unlikely alliance, and head north through a vicious winter to find the last stronghold of the rebellion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Local fishing crews had told him of the Lombok Strait's fiendishly shifting currents, vicious whirlpools, and unexpected waves far from shore.
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Snappers strike viciously when lifted from water or teased and can inflict a serious bite.
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He whipped in a viciously dipping shot that spun just a foot over the bar.
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A dog snarled at us viciously but he was caged and couldn't get at us.
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Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
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If anything, like a ravening creature, made savage through incarceration, the recollection had grown more vicious with the passage of time.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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The magazine recently published a vicious personal attack on the novelist.
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The system is catastrophically failing to end the vicious circle of criminality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight.
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In the hope that the professor has since repented of such vicious slander, I do not mention the name.
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So if you're too tired to exercise, you set off another vicious cycle.
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One direct result of this vicious circle was that many parents remained dubious about the quality of non-government education.
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The horse was huge and vicious. Giles was the only one who could manage her.
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vicious kicks
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Their principal enemy is the leopard, but even leopards will avoid an encounter with the larger, adult males who are courageous and vicious adversaries.
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The dogs were nearing her, coming closer; their teeth bared, snarling viciously
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Catching her wrist, Holman smacked her face viciously, sending her to her knees, but still holding on to her.
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Vega is seen here as vicious and impossibly vain, but not quite the psycho nutjob of the Japanese anime movie.
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In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature.
God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
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The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. Samuel Johnson
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We discussed Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's concerns that blogging is just 'pub bores' ( see debate on political blogging here on TV), the state of the blog wars, in which both sides have taken a lot of flak, particularly Tim, who has provoked a needed debate about damage done to the image of blogging by lack of basic 'netiquette', and who has been viciously ( anonymously) lambasted for it, which rather proves his original point.
Blogger TV again
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At the time I was outraged, and I can still feel anger about that cold-blooded viciousness.
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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we assume.
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The vicious circle of alienation is closed, in that people fail to recognize their own alienation.
Politics, Planning and the State
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So, they throw like girls, which implies weakness, yet they were vicious attackers who needed to be subdued with significant force?
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He was set upon by a vicious dog.
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Then, in a vicious splurge, flames spat around the lintel of the door itself.
SCANDAL'S BRIDE
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So Thomas decided to exact revenge by surreptitiously placing a vicious computer virus on Scott's machine which destroyed his hard drive.
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The vicious circle of alienation is closed, in that people fail to recognize their own alienation.
Politics, Planning and the State
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The peace-loving citizens of Stodge City need a hero to save them from vicious gunfighter The Rumpo Kid.
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Trapped in the vicious cycle of bondage and slavery, they have nowhere to go and are thrust into a life which reduces them to nothing but robots.
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If it had been, a particularly vicious correction must have occurred to turn Britain back into the timorous, conservative country it became in the Seventies.
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So, I suppose it could become a theme or subtheme of pundrity and vicious commentary throughout not only a general campaign if Hillary is the nominee [ad naseum flashes of that one picture again of Bill hugging a glowing faced Monica], but also extending throughout any years Bill C. might again spend in the White House.
Poll: Hillary's Huge Lead In Florida Fueled By Women Voters
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Conditions varied from steady 10-12 knot south-westerlies to almost dead calm, interspersed with vicious rain-squalls out of the south - typical Monsoon weather in the northern Gulf at this time of the year.
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Sir Hugo is found dead on the moors, viciously murdered by a terrifying hound from hell.
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[Illustration: page226] and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race, by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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It could be brutal and vicious from round one.
The Sun
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People — and I do actually mean “people” here, not viciously stupid animals like yourself — already know that that pathetically infantile piece of snivelling ideological tripe is demonstrably false.
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Only his death will be faked, and word will be sent that he died at the claws of a vicious sand dragon!
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Then they both gush about how it's going to be great fun and will be all slumber parties and makeup while eyeing each other viciously.
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Basically, a regard with a live eventuality is over what could begin which Section 1 wouldnt be means to control (i.e. a brawl, vicious injury, etc.).
No broadcasts from Section 1 finals | Varsity Insider
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And in Strut, two vicious-looking dogs occupy a vague terrain in which a pair of skulls suggest a boneyard where the dogs have eaten their fill.
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Nobody seems interested in destroying, once and for all, the vicious circle in which this "vagary" of international fraud entraps us.
January 2006
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He had the round, deep-chested, big-hearted, well-coupled body of the ideal mountain pony, and his head and neck were true thoroughbred, slender, yet full, with lovely alert ears not too small to be vicious nor too large to be stubborn mulish.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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It is a deliberate, nasty and vicious attack on a young man's character.
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The crowd began to mutter angrily, the glowing embers of their ancient prejudices that had been viciously stoked by the near murder of their King were being fanned to fury so easily by the power of the monarch's simple words.
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This was a vicious and brutal attack.
The Sun
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For as thou mayest call a carcase a dead man, but not simply a man, so I confess that the vicious are evil, but I cannot grant that they are absolutely.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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I got on a high, and the comedown was vicious, but I recovered from a bad hangover - and if there is a next time I probably won't drink as much and will read the side of the pack and go by the recommended dosage.
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She was a cruel and vicious woman, and did not hesitate to inflict pain upon her inferiors, be they slaves, servants, or her own flesh and blood.
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His criticisms, though occasionally biting, were never vicious, and invariably constructive.
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But when they're serving shots of vodka at the equivalent of 33 pence a go, one is generally too sozzled to complain viciously.
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I've got this soccer video and the headbutts are vicious looking, whereas in the United States I've seen lots of fights and not one headbutt thrown intentionally.
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Don't tolerate the equally vicious dishonesty of adultery.
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He has a fully visible collaborator and hagiographer named Mark Salter who is also his closest aide and his most vicious attack dog.
Prickly McCain Refuses To Define "Honor" In Interview
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We refer here not only to the daily shootings, the bestialities inflicted on demonstrators and detainees and the vicious campaign of terror carried out against all who are opposed to the apartheid system - churchmen, whole religious communities, students, professors and teachers, workers, peasants, mothers and even children.
WE HAVE DECIDED TO LIBERATE OURSELVES
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In his many years as a councillor he has witnessed many intrigues, backstabbings and bunfights at Hull's Guildhall - and his reaction to the latest particularly vicious spat is a weary shrug.
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Once when the late G.P. Sanderson was in a keddah, noosing wild elephants, and was assulted [sic] by a vicious tusker, his life was saved by a tame female elephant, whose boy driver caused her to attack the tusker with her head, and nearly bowl him over by the force of her blows upon his ribs.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
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Most people would allow, though, that bloodthirsty material could be a catalyst in rare cases where very damaged children are exposed to an overload of vicious fantasy.
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Watch video of donkey launching vicious attack.
The Sun
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Once the vicious circle is established - of anxiety about speech = stammer = anxiety about speech - the stammer feeds on itself.
Stammering in Young Children
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It was called in February and a vicious campaign began.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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The sentencing judge noted "a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, and callousness."
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While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control.
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Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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A 200-pound pet chimpanzee viciously mauled a woman he had known for years.
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The most vicious battles he's likely to have seen in his 52 years will have been on the quoits deck.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is gratuitous violence, sick, bone-crunching, vicious and obscene.
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Everywhere, black, thorned leaves stormed down on the citizenry, piercing their flesh or leaving long, vicious cuts.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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He was a vicious puncher with both hands.
The Sun
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While in prison he launched a vicious bottle attack on three guards - none of whom has received compensation.
The Sun
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The vicious cycle will begin anew, putting the Mets in an even deeper hole.
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Kudos is due to Sarah Millican, whose brilliant eye for observation and viciously acerbic style gives her the chops to win over all but the most committed chauvinists.
This week's new comedy
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The guy put his head down and stormed on, his vicious racist rantings now dimmed to a mutter, his hate-filled words completely stripped of any power.
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It is a nasty and vicious circle.
Times, Sunday Times
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You've spent hours reveling, but just as the night is winding down, two drunk guests get into a vicious argument.
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What emerges from this dynamic is a character who is vicious, close-minded, petty, and rude, and yet who becomes the infallible arbiter of morality for those around him.
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Anonymous trolls have subjected victims to vicious and long-running campaigns of threats and harassment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your body would involuntarily tense up the next time and so a vicious circle is set up.
The Sun
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This legislation is concerned with really vicious criminals and thugs, and we in New Zealand First say that they should not get a brass razoo.
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It reunited in 1996-with original bass player Glen Matlock subbing for his replacement, the late Sid Vicious - for a five-month world tour.
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They are rather sinister creatures that like to stalk their prey as it dies a slow, lingering death from septicaemia caused by their vicious bite.
The Sun
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vicious kicks
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Since the triads dealt with him so viciously, I believe that he was exceptional in fulfilling the duties of a journalist and that was why he was hated.
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Hypercapnia can also decrease respiratory muscle contractility, leading to a vicious circle of carbon dioxide retention.
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FOUR men have been arrested after a vicious gang attack left one man dead and another fighting for life.
The Sun
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The large caliber bullets tore into the approaching enemy soldiers with viciousness.
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MORE than 100 terrified teachers and staff say their school has been taken over by vicious gangs.
The Sun
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Thus at St. Isabel or Clarence, Fernando Po, where the land-wind or the sea-breeze ever blows, the vicious little wretches are hardly known; on the forested background of mountain they are troublesome as at Nigerian Nufe.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Horses that are lame, broken-winded, and vicious, pull the great bulk of all the weight that horses pull.
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ging gang goolie" - style ditties lead singer Johnny Rotten and doomed bassist Sid Vicious enjoyed when they were in the Scouts.
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He was a shameless toady to those above him and a vicious bully to those below him.
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He interestingly elicits the languor and melancholy of Fowler, fusing this ennui with the action as Fowler journeys up-country to report on the vicious shooting war.
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Vicious trolls branded her ugly and told her to die.
The Sun
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‘This is not just an attack on prison officers, but an attack on the entire criminal justice system by vicious thugs,’ he said.
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Doubtless, the rabble-rousers of the Middle Ages who led the persecution of ‘witches’ were fully aware of the viciousness of their acts.
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At the moment there is not a good enough deterrent to stop these vicious, painful and dangerous attacks.
The Sun
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He launches a vicious attack in several parts of this book on postmodern literary criticism and feminist theory.
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Like many other girls, the teenager was trapped in a vicious circle.
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Finally, while invective is common in the political arena, Stefan's wife and personal life are clearly out of bounds, and especially with respect to vicious personal and racist remarks.
Sound Politics: Michael Hood: Seattle's most chronically wrong journalist
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‘What is going on in Najaf and the rest of the Iraqi cities is a violation of sanctities, an aggression on holy sites and shedding of innocent blood that could lead to a vicious civil war,’ he said.
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The two men turned out to be members of a vicious gang of four armed robbers who were responsible for eight separate shootings and 20 hold-ups throughout West Yorkshire.
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It is a cause of concern and was a very vicious and nasty attack and we are treating it as a racially motivated incident.
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They are rather sinister creatures that like to stalk their prey as it dies a slow, lingering death from septicaemia caused by their vicious bite.
The Sun
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There was rarely anything vicious about these jokes: they were leg pulling jokes which only the sensitive and pompous found annoying.
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It is a nasty and vicious circle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The latter film is particularly memorable, with Udo Kier's Dr. Jekyll periodically excusing himself from his dinner guests (including Patrick Magee) to thrash about in a chemically-treated bath, emerging as the vicious rapist Mr Hyde (Gérard Zalcberg), whose knife-like phallus is digitally opaqued in the only uncut version of the film I've seen (from Japan).
The Passing of a Eurocult Master
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Unfortunately for Marc and Bobby Sura, he took out many months of anger on Sura's head with a vicious hack as the Warrior attempted a layup.
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His philosophy of pragmatic capitalism and backslapping politics were viciously attacked by members of the Northern black elite.
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Now, it would have been far better to have passed on to the land beyond or swing back to earth again, for a borderland is the most unsafe land in which to dwell on account of its roaming herds of wild beasts, marauding, vicious men, and dangers too numerous to mention.
Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,
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Why do they call him, variously, treacherous, untrustworthy, racist, pig-headed, short-sighted, dishonest, stupid and vicious?
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Instead, there was a torrent of tales of nasty and vicious excess.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
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Viciously beaten, he sustained serious injury leading to major brain surgery and permanent disability.
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It took a helicopter and police marksmen to bring the vicious little critter to justice.
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he took a vicious cut at the ball
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Triflic anhydride, and its hydrolysis product, the viciously strong triflic acid, are notorious plastic-eaters and cap-softeners.
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Viciously attacked by critics and rejected by the public, the Impressionist painters were outcasts in the art world.
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Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted.
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`Peik wasn't a fly, though he might have been a tarantula or a particularly vicious cobra ready to strike to kill.
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
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His comments can be cruel, vicious and personal.
The Sun
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The combination of the described vicious cycles acting as accelerator wheels, a set of ineffective brakes, and increasingly obesogenic environments represents a major challenge for weight management.
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Atwater was more colorful and more publicly vicious than most, but his tactics were fairly typical.
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She had four felony convictions for burglary and petty theft with priors, and had been out of prison for a couple of years when she coolly shoplifted, then viciously fought me in the parking lot.
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Then he began to lose his birds by accident, by the destructive propensities of the goblin and a vicious old hen or two; and lastly, some kind of epidemic, which they dubbed ostrich chicken-pox, carried the young birds off wholesale.
Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure
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Clarence threw a vicious rabbit punch into Jack's kidney, and broke the contact to aim a cut at Jack's head.
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Crimes such as taking something from the office or asking a friend to bend the rules might involve only minor damage, but set up a vicious cycle.
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They pointed to the improbability of her escape, bound and tied, from a vicious gunman with a dog.
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The victim turned up as planned and was viciously punched in the face.
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Many ordinary children suffer horribly during vicious civil wars.
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Even before the latest talks began, China launched a vicious verbal attack on the Dalai Lama this week, denouncing him as a " flunky " and "the main manipulator" of violence in Tibet.
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Underachievement often leads to unemployment and long-term disengagement, which is a vicious cycle and it is difficult to come out from such an entrapment.
Tower Hamlets: Labour produces its intriguing new mayoral shortlist
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Something unhealthy in our political system causes each president to be portrayed in the most vicious and derisive terms.
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vicious gossip
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This has proven to be a vicious downward spiral leading to the destruction of all past gains won in decades of struggle.
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Lynch wrote a notoriously vengeful poem, full of vicious curses, a story he tells against himself in shamefaced penance.
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He then answers his own question with a vicious sideways slash that drops the bloody-nosed gumshoe to the ground while the entire audience winces in sympathetic pain.
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We cannot condone terrorism, but the way to end it is not through a vicious spiral of violence.
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In explaining the viciousness of the war in the Pacific, the virulent racism of all the participating countries is crucial.
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More than half of the incidents involved vicious dogs.
The Sun
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A dog snarled at us viciously but he was caged and couldn't get at us.
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These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
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Nick Stahl does a good job portraying Bobby as a vicious, detestable bully (with perhaps just a hint of reptilian charisma).
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When he witnesses yet another murder being committed by his client, intimidation, kidnapping, and a vicious frame-up conspire to try to keep him from telling what he knows.
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People could look harmless and gorgeous on the outside when really they are vicious vile evil monsters on the inside.
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Performing simple tasks, not ones that require huge amounts of concentration, and ideally tasks at which we are quite practiced, is the way to conquer the vicious circle of negative thoughts.
Paying Attention « Tales from the Reading Room
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The seductive illusion of virtuous circle was transposed to the ugly reality of vicious financial death spiral.
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We're at the stage now where there's a basis to break out of this vicious cycle and actually bring into being something radically new.
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He was knocked unconscious and robbed in a vicious attack near Trowbridge Park.
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And so I packed up enough clothes for a few days and went and visited Dan, who generously looked after me with a complete package of baked beans, ultra-delicious soup, hot tea, geekspeak and a vicious thump on the head with a soccer ball.
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Perhaps it was the dull throb of pain or the tyre mark on my shoe that put me in a particularly vicious mood.
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Those men who make gift of Kapila king with their calves and with vessel of white brass for milking them, -- kine, that is, which are not vicious and which while given away, are wrapped round with cloths, -- succeed in conquering both this and the other world.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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This is a vicious circle.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know what you did," Robbie Carr, one of the four, told a player after a discreetly vicious cross-check, "because I've done it before myself.
Hockey in Manhattan, No Ice Needed
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His prodigal disposition of the box of matches impressed most of them as reckless dare-devilism; his haste, anxiety, and a single instance of mild profanity told others of his viciousness.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow
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And that whatever action can have no effect either upon one's self, or any other person, and is neither pleas - ing nor displeasing to God, cannot be called cither virtu - ous or vicious.
The Dignity of Human Nature, Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ...
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The vicious cycle of life and death is an everyday event in the wild.
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SoS is into some seriously weirdo electro-based crunked up stuff - MCs Johan, Marcus and Gesan providing bizarre flow over heady, 8-bit electronic beats and vicious synths, and in the case of this track some more strange elements like some kind of (real or synth?) flute ... weird, seriously weird.
Music (For Robots): October 2005 Archives
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A vicious circle would establish itself, in which the condition of the patients and the pessimistic views of the nursing staff regarding their recovery became mutually reinforcing.
PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
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This of course creates the vicious circle where we are so used to understanding our past through stories that we can digest information only when it is has been turned into a story.
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Let's see ... pornography has been strictly and totally off limits for kids since forever, but letting them virtually hack other people, monsters, and aliens to bloody shreds in exquisite, life-like detail and with the most vicious weapons imaginable is (ho hum) tolerated, if not exactly condoned?
High court accepts case over violent video games
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At the moment there is not a good enough deterrent to stop these vicious, painful and dangerous attacks.
The Sun
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You'll be engrossed in an inexplicably vicious conversation about house prices and school catchment areas by then.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man good throughout.
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He says the NGO presence has permanently " infantilized " the country, creating a vicious cycle: The government lacks the money — and historically, the inclination — to provide social services.
Aid Spawns Backlash in Haiti
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You also wrote: "Every workplace or institution is full of politics and petty jealousies, that is human nature, but the sheer viciousness and bloodthirstyness of academia is astounding.
The Dangers (?) Of Academic Blogs
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Pota passed into law with 425 ayes to 296 nays after a bitter 10-hour debate that was punctuated by vicious personal attacks.
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She was a foulmouthed, conscience-less killer, unfeeling at best and vicious at worst.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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Numerous falsifications, voter intimidation and a vicious propaganda campaign have prevailed in the first round.
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Ye haue another vicious speech which the Greekes call Acyron, we call it the vncouthe, and is when we vse an obscure and darke word, and vtterly repugnant to that we would expresse, if it be not by vertue of the figures metaphore, allegorie, abusion, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of Epithete.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Let go of me, you vicious monster!
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Vicious, razor-edged rocks sliced into the pads of his feet, however he paid them no heed as he stalked away, his back straight with confidence and resolution.
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This fuels a vicious downward spiral of self-hatred and hatred of anomalous others from which it is difficult for the political discriminator to escape.
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The 52-year-old builder, originally from Beaufort, was viciously knifed to death while waiting for a train in London.
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See, now will I charm this snaily from its cell with the air that Réné taught _me_," and together the two heads bent over one of the vicious little "desert snails of Egypt," which young Isabelle of Tyre had found crawling along the casement of the palace.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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Marcus swung a vicious blow at Richard's head that would have knocked him out if he hadn't quickly ducked.
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In this particular case, that means making the song, undeniably a vicious, heavy-metal-techno stormer, all the more ferocious and chunky.
I'm Baaaaaack (Music (For Robots))
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This is a vicious circle.
Times, Sunday Times
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As written, the proposition is overly broad and might have vicious unintended consequences the Legislature didn't foresee.
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Perhaps as a result, the insults swapped between the two campaigns are vicious and personal.
Times, Sunday Times
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(I'll leave aside Lithwick's ongoing effort, which Jonathan Adler has aptly remarked on before, to reposition herself from her previous role as a perpetrator of the "vicious slash-and-burn character attack" to her new role as a hypersensitive bemoaner of any criticism of nominees.)
Bench Memos
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And these two people, two lawyers, had very, very vicious dogs.
