How To Use Viciousness In A Sentence
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Those that understand that we are at war with terroristic purveyors of medieval viciousness know that we cannot reason with our adversaries.
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We are a straightforward and self-righteous people, so we are rather good at viciousness, but lacking in irony.
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Police were shocked by the viciousness of the assault.
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To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud - dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment —
Chapter 14
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The large caliber bullets tore into the approaching enemy soldiers with viciousness.
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The subject matter (physical and verbal bullying, a girl accused of being a "lezzie") is a little heavy for elementary school unless the child is facing that kind of intense pressure and viciousness at a younger age.
Semicolon
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If the woman falsely counterclaimed rape, then, based on the viciousness with which sex criminals are routinely treated, I think 12 years in the pokey is quite right, possibly even on the overly lenient side.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Female Teacher’s Having Sex with 17-Year-Old Male Student/Teacher’s Aide = 12 Years in Prison (But Was More Involved?)
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: transients attempt to succumb to pathos, and triumph as sad clowns in velvet. there's an oxymoron or two in there, i think. and unseen in the infinite depths of black velvet is the weight of indelible viciousness shouldered by the garish penitents. or maybe Xtreme Hobo Stick.
Hobo Stick
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The person who is the killer is the person who presses all the way and governs the viciousness of the attack.
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His viciousness is amped to naked bloodthirstiness.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin
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The possibilities are limited only by the deviousness of your mind and the viciousness of your competitive drive.
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Never before have I seen people fight with such viciousness and hatred - and I speak whereof I know as I was at the First Day Sales at McGringles this year.
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But it also unshrinkingly shows the viciousness of terrorism and the three-dimensional reality of victims who might otherwise recede into facelessness.
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The viciousness of the response from the other side was very telling.
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The portrayal of the parents as academics with monstrous egos is presumably an instance of the "humor" of which so many reviewers of Russo's fiction take note, but it seems to me more vicious than funny, although I guess there's still a little entertainment value in the viciousness.
June 2010
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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
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But what we endured is a meanness of spirit, a viciousness, and a cruelty that I hope no political family will ever be subjected to again.
Laura Bush's life, straight from the 'Heart'
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There was viciousness and real cruelty beneath his semicivilized veneer.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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By the time that Scott came to his 'teens, Mrs. Brenton was doing her level and conscientious best to conceal from him the demoralizing fact of her belief that he could do almost no wrong, and she clung to the modifying _almost_ with a passionate fervour born of her clerical ancestry and her consequent belief in the inherent viciousness of unconverted man.
The Brentons
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The viciousness of the crime was enough to seal his fate.
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The sense of finality which that conveyed really brought home the violence and viciousness of the act.
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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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The sentencing judge noted "a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, and callousness."
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The large caliber bullets tore into the approaching enemy soldiers with viciousness.
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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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In explaining the viciousness of the war in the Pacific, the virulent racism of all the participating countries is crucial.
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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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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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He includes a sample from an answering machine about his ‘Internet press’ after he says some crits are ‘hoping that their viciousness will boost traffic on their site.’
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Hughes's central concern was to display the suffering of the convicts and the viciousness of their gaolers.
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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 prime minister glared with the viciousness of a cornered beast, partly because she was cornered and partly because she is bestial.
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No other civil rights movement would allow a hate monger to spew their viciousness on their own show on national television.
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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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What's different, at least for journalists in Iraq today, is that the viciousness and brutality is a much greater inhibitor to work.
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He berates the already demoralized employees in a speech of extraordinary viciousness.
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They're racists because they are driven by hate, and whatever they do, that viciousness just bubbles over.
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He was in the thick of the bagarres in the Latin Quarter where he noted the viciousness of the French police.
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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
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Even so they were aghast at the sheer jaw-dropping viciousness of the unexpurgated smears he planned.
Times, Sunday Times
