• IPA: /ˈvɪʃəs/

vicious (comparative viciouser, superlative viciousest)

1. Violent, destructive and cruel.
2. Savage and aggressive.
3. (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:

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

• scathy

• See vice#Related_terms

• German: gewalttätig, destruktiv
• Italian: violento

• German: grausam, aggressiv
• Italian: aggressivo

• French: vicieux
• German: böse, boshaft, übel, unmoralisch
• Spanish: vicioso

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