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viciously

/vish-uhs/US // ˈvɪʃ əs //UK // (ˈvɪʃəs) //

恶狠狠地,狠狠地,恶毒地,恶狠狠

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip;a vicious attack.
    • : savage; ferocious: They all feared his vicious temper.
    • : having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition: a vicious bull.
    • : unpleasantly severe: a vicious headache.
    • : addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
    • : given or readily disposed to evil: a vicious criminal.
    • : reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception.
    • : characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound: vicious reasoning.
    • : Archaic. morbid, foul, or noxious.

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Examples

  • In its subliminal, pulsing ambiguity, the ending seems to carry the key to the whole book — this vicious, knife-sharp book — but it’s so hard to figure out just what that key is.

  • We’re in a vicious cycle with appliances, and it’s partly because there aren’t enough people with the knowledge to repair them.

  • Until then, our businesses continue to be trapped in a vicious cycle – providing benefits to Google’s competing services while rendering our own services obsolete in the long run.

  • We have it in our power to begin to turn this vicious cycle — and it is a vicious cycle — into something more virtuous.

  • “I got caught up in the gig economy’s nonsense, and I got caught in a vicious cycle,” said Copridge, who begins every week $260 underwater because he rents a Chevrolet Bolt for work.

  • The best that can be said for these budding radicals is that at least they sincerely hate the thing they so viciously attack.

  • Of gays being persecuted viciously in countries like Russia and Iran?

  • “They treated me like an alien,” she says, explaining that North Koreans are viciously stereotyped in South Korea.

  • In 2004, two Sikh men were viciously beaten by young white assailants while walking on the sidewalk.

  • Nor is it where the gunman then viciously pistol whips his victim repeatedly for having the temerity not to die.

  • The needle of the archdruidress broke, as she shook her head viciously at the scoffer.

  • The Arab pricked his ears, swished his long and arched tail viciously, and showed the whites of his eyes.

  • "I wonder if she has ever tried to condense rudeness into an epigram," said Isabel viciously, pausing in her narrative.

  • "So ye'll just be by yoursel' the morn, unless they put Dicky Tamson owre aside you," he added viciously.

  • With the coming up of Colonel Field the Indians immediately gave ground, then charged most viciously as our men pursued.