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 vicious ['viʃәs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 邪恶的, 堕落的, 品性不端的, 恶毒的, 恶性的, 有错误的

[医] 缺点的, 恶的




    vicious
    [ adj ]
    1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

    2. <adj.all>
      a barbarous crime
      brutal beatings
      cruel tortures
      Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
      a savage slap
      vicious kicks
    3. having the nature of vice

    4. <adj.all>
    5. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

    6. <adj.all>
      a criminal waste of talent
      a deplorable act of violence
      adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
    7. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful

    8. <adj.all>
      poisonous hate
      venomous criticism
      vicious gossip


    Vicious \Vi"cious\, a. [OF. vicious, F. vicieux, fr. L.
    vitiosus, fr. vitium vice. See {Vice} a fault.]
    1. 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. --De
    Quincey.

    2. 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.

    3. Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air,
    water, etc. --Dryden.

    4. Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language;
    vicious idioms.

    5. Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly;
    refractory; as, a vicious horse.

    6. Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.]

    Syn: Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved.
    -- {Vi"cious*ly}, adv. --
    {Vi"cious*ness}, n.

    1. In "Marathon Man," a 1976 thriller with Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, a vicious Nazi (Olivier) risks going to the Jewish quarter in New York in search of diamonds.
    2. Says Ms. Pomerenke: "That's when our mosquitoes really get vicious." Maxxam said that the earnings mostly reflect results at its Kaiser Aluminum Corp. unit, which sold 13% of its stock in its initial public offering this month.
    3. He knows that it is vicious and exploitative.
    4. There is a further unnecessary vicious streak at the end when the miser's gold is tipped out of its box.
    5. And inflation thus not only stays where it is, it rises." This vicious circle can be broken, many say, only by breaking inflationary expectations.
    6. Abu Nidal's Fatah-Revolutionary Council group is also reported to have moved back to Iraq after a vicious internal feud in which hundreds of his men were killed.
    7. Lumping the pacific, slow-moving, affectionate sour mugs with the vicious and aggressive American pit bull terrier of deservedly bad repute is somewhat like associating Elsie the milk cow with el toros de la plaza.
    8. Sometimes they are part of a vicious circle, forced to pay late because they are not being paid by their customers. Government and industry acknowledge the problem.
    9. In the end, something had to give in order to break Mexico's vicious economic circle.
    10. 'It is a self-perpetuating problem,' says one syndicate manager. Last week's deals helped to provide liquidity at the longer end of the market but syndicate managers say it will take a considerable time before this vicious circle is broken.
    11. But, in typical African fashion, this discipline and outside pressure is causing the vicious circles to spin even faster.
    12. This was evident in an outbreak of vicious street violence earlier this month between ethnic Hungarians and Romanians in the province of Transylvania.
    13. That, in turn, exacerbates both economic and political tensions - and so leads to a vicious circle of decline.
    14. Like Melissa, a growing number of children across the country are caught in a vicious circle, encountering abuse wherever they are placed.
    15. The danger of the vicious circle still lurks in which currency weakness and the government's dwindling standing in the polls feed on each other. Against this background, it is difficult to see why the FT-SE should hold on to yesterday's 1 per cent gain.
    16. And his dependency is a vicious circle.
    17. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge were particularly vicious, unleashing a bloodbath that took as many as two million Cambodian lives in 44 months.
    18. More recently, a vicious legal battle erupted between Goldstein and Joseph Fischer, a one-time consultant of his. Investments in real estate went sour, and price wars engulfed the electronics retailing sector generally.
    19. Base rate of interest may have to be pushed down still more before the vicious cycle of debt deflation is put into reverse.
    20. Bob was seen to strike vicious hammer-like blows on what presumably was Laura Palmer.
    21. Yesterday, already thin dealings tended to get even thinner, said one trader, turning into a vicious circle in which the lack of buyers scared off sellers.
    22. Here is one piece of dignity in a vicious world.
    23. "It's vicious out there, and you don't want someone to take your business away.
    24. It casts Beauty as a Manhattan socialite and corporate lawyer named Catherine Chandler (Linda Hamilton), who is beaten by a vicious gang and left to die in Central Park, only to be rescued by a mysterious Man/Beast named Vincent (Ron Perlman).
    25. If you're a child, it's better to have an adult brain so you can outfox the vicious little vermin who dominate the sixth grade.
    26. Lorie is stolen by Blue Duck (Forrest), a vicious renegade who duels with Gus and meets an unusual demise.
    27. The VAT people can be vicious and now we are awaiting our first visit from the Inland Revenue.
    28. Inkatha has been involved in vicious faction fighting in Natal Province for the past two years with supporters of the banned United Democratic Front, which is the country's largest anti-apartheid coalition and a political ally of the ANC.
    29. "He would never just disappear," his father said. "The government's actions are vicious." About 1,000 students and workers protested outside police headquarters near the square.
    30. 'To say that this is a circle, vicious or otherwise, is putting it too highly,' a leading businessman cynically remarks.
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