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Answer for the clue "Extremely violent ", 7 letters:
vicious

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Vicious may also refer to: In music : Sid Vicious (1957–1979), punk rock icon Johnny Vicious , American house DJ, producer and remixer Vicious (rapper) , Jamaican-American rapper and reggae artist active in the 1990s Vicious (album) , by Nasty Idols Vicious ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vicious \Vi"cious\, a. [OF. vicious, F. vicieux, fr. L. vitiosus, fr. vitium vice. See Vice a fault.] Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. --Shak. The title of these lords was vicious ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (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" [syn: barbarous , brutal , cruel , ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a vicious campaign (= very unpleasant and designed to attack someone ) ▪ The state had conducted a vicious campaign of misinformation and propaganda. a vicious lie (= one that is very unkind and very untrue ) ▪ ...

Usage examples of vicious.

It was as though there were small, vicious fish inside her, tearing at her vampire flesh, at the atrophied organs that should not have been sensitive to pain.

Yet, although quite practicable, it would be a most morbid and dejected existence, without vitality or even thought, but only paramentation, our chief companions paramental entities of azoic origin more vicious than spiders or weasels.

Some of the mothers in our groups have become so conflicted at the thought of leaving their babies to return to work, they begin a vicious routine of trying to do two jobs without any help.

So untrue is it that we are urged to bestow benefits by our own interest, that even when our benefits prove failures we continue to nurse them and encourage them out of sheer love of benefiting, which has a natural weakness even for what has been ill-bestowed, like that which we feel for our vicious children.

Sachs the street cop with wire thoroughly enjoyed hearing the vicious bigot squeal like a pig as she sprayed him again.

I wonder if David Westin would be so Swiss if someone had asked what he thought about what those vicious white bigots in Texas did to James Byrd, dragging him to his death from the back of a pickup truck?

But the vicious sword took that fear and transformed it, bombarding poor Delly with images of her child being massacred by those same orcs, turning her terror into red rage so completely that she was soon running headlong for the camp.

But even I am forced to admit that they are a ridiculous people, just as one must confess that the British are bungling, the Italians incompetent, the Americans neurotic, the Germans romantically savage, the Arabs vicious, the Russians barbaric, and the Dutch make cheese.

They were rough-looking men, with hard faces and vicious eyes, clad in the bright yellow japons and black cloaklets of the Ardhanese.

He possessed a certain vicious charm that constituted something of an attractant to the ladies and allowed him to get into places and away with things that defeated less animated types like Codd and Johns.

Three years younger than she was, it seemed to me that she could not love me with any idea of mischief, and the consciousness of my own vicious excitement put me out of temper with myself.

I certainly thought it was a bunch of crumby, vicious nonsense at the time.

But I certainly thought it was a bunch of crumby, vicious nonsense at the time.

We still were fighting furiously as we talked in broken sentences, punctured with vicious cuts and thrusts at our swarming enemy.

With the last word he aimed a vicious chop at Dalt, who ducked, spun and dodged out of the way.