Crossword clues for viciousness
viciousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vicious \Vi"cious\, a. [OF. vicious, F. vicieux, fr. L. vitiosus, fr. vitium vice. See Vice a fault.]
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Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess.
--Shak.The title of these lords was vicious in its origin.
--Burke.A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning.
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Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race.
--Milton. Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.
--Dryden.Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
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Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.]
Syn: Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved. [1913 Webster] -- Vi"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the characteristic of being vicious 2 the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty
WordNet
n. the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, savageness, savagery]
Usage examples of "viciousness".
All of these, all that man could think of or had thought of long enoughall the madness and the wit, all the buffoonery and the viciousness, all the lightness and the sadness which all men, in all ages, from the cave up to the present moment, had fashioned in their minds were in this very place.
She wanted Cavin with a fanged, descended-from-wolves viciousness than transcended her tiny barrel-chested body.
Ariana absently rubbed her stomach, her mind agonizing over what viciousness Grader had in store for her now.
Rundi: a brown-gold furred simian, notable for its plush pelage and its frenetic viciousness.
They are Section A attacks escalated to one more level of viciousness and are of course in Blamer Mode.
The natural foundation of the institution of monogamy is not any inherent viciousness in polygyny or polyandry, but the hard fact that men and women are born in about equal numbers.
And there, in exacerbating viciousness, the resharpened vision of the maze exposed an insidious, fresh twist: the geas of Desh-thiere had not been quiescent.
Both had brought their viciousness into her house uninvited, one through words in a magazine and the other through a tiny crack in a window frame or door jamb.
The wardress pushed her down the stairs, but without the viciousness of before.
Very weak, I agree, but Doakes displayed an unnerving habit of asking the most awkward questions, and with such an understated viciousness, that I found it hard enough not to stutter, let alone come up with something clever.
Everyone would gladly have been rid of their stupidity and viciousness, but unfortunately these diseases, although communicable, are not fatal.
The theoretics of the contest lends itself to an appreciation of the patient, attritive, grinding down tactics of traditional Quebecois Séparatisteurs such as Les Fils de Montcalm and the Fronte de la Liberation du Quebec, as opposed to the viciousness and brinksmanship of "Le Prochain Train"'s Root Cult's disabled heirs.
I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal - cacodaemoniacal - and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.
I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal - cacodaemoniacal - and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.
He related the course of the battle at the Azle River, and then even Azhure lost her colour, for WolfStar had not told her of the full extent and viciousness of the encounter.