• Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
  Meaning: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
• Synonyms: evil, vicious
  Meaning: having the nature of vice

• At seven the child is vicious and a thief.
• With a vicious scream the Cardinal struck him full force.
• Vicious people, like wolves, would destroy the sheep of God.
• Didn't take her long to get ready!" muttered Miss Terry, giving the fire a vicious poke.
• By taking them away from their father, or by leaving them with a vicious father--yes, a vicious father....
• "You fool, Dent," Tode's voice rang out with vicious, snarling emphasis, "I gave you your chance to come in with me.
• "You might as well come to it and tell the truth; that you do not like our society." And she gave him a vicious little glance without a shadow of a smile.
• In the same way, also, it is Shakespeare alone who speaks for his villains: Richard, Edmund, Iago, Macbeth, expressing for them those vicious feelings which villains never express.
• And even (it will be added) if the consequences of misconduct could be confined to the vicious or thoughtless individual, ought society to abandon to their own guidance those who are manifestly unfit for it?
• And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

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