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vicious

Adjektivhäufig in Dialogen

  • //ˈvɪʃəs//

Violent, destructive and cruel.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Violent, destructive and cruel.

  2. 2

    Savage and aggressive.

    He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

  3. 3

    altertümlichPertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

    We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

    Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof

    A murrain on you, Reverend Apse/I hope you get caught in a vicious moral lapse.

Herkunft

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous.

Formen

Komparativ
more vicious, viciouser
Superlativ
most vicious, viciousest
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