vicious

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//ˈvɪʃəs//

Violent, destructive and cruel.

aggettivo

1
Violent, destructive and cruel.
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
arcaicoPertaining 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.

Etimologia

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.

Forme

comparativo: more vicious, viciouser
superlativo: most vicious, viciousest

Vice · A surname.viceroy · One who governs a country, province, or colony as the…vicinity · Proximity; the state of being near.

vicious · Violent, destructive and cruel.

Vicious · A surname.Vicki · A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of…Vicky · A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, also used as…

Le pagine vicine — L'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.