How to Use vicious in a Sentence

vicious

adjective

• I know you're upset with her, but there's no need to be vicious.
• The public face of the pro-life movement looks at the moment loony and vicious.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• The move may have been for the best, as the vicious battle was just getting started.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
• This fight cuts to the heart of the often vicious disagreements about what role AI should have in our world.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• That top line is vicious, but the Huskies need not always rely on them.
  — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Villains are one thing, but then there is the vicious, cruel and bath-avoidant Mary.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 June 2024
• Years earlier the two had been in a vicious fight that put Abed in the hospital.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The payments set a vicious cycle that shows no signs of slowing.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• He’s known to fire off a vicious tweet (or whatever they’re called in the land of X) to call out the fearmongers.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• Over the next dozen years, Haitian rebels and French soldiers waged a vicious war of attrition.
  — Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Whatever the reason, sailors say, the course took a vicious turn.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Again, don’t expect a high number of reps, but expect a vicious pump at the end your drop set.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• An inability to sleep can be the start of a vicious cycle.
  — Yuliya Klochan, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
• Soaring with the ball in his right hand, Jaquez threw down a vicious dunk over the helpless defender.
  — Austin Knoblauchassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• The show's a little more clever, a little more vicious, and a lot more fun than the other zombie fare out there.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 June 2022
• Uncle followed the first blow with even more vicious ones, and each crack of the whip sounded like thunder in my ears.
  — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• That battle is what led a British officer to compare the area to the insect with a vicious sting.
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2024
• After all, that’s his comfort zone — floating with his head above the rim, one arm cocked to throw down a vicious dunk.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
• World & Nation The Ukraine war’s most vicious fight is happening in Bakhmut.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• These shortcomings despite the fact that heat is a vicious killer.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• How much longer will Vladimir Putin prosecute his vicious war in Ukraine?
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• The late Tony Siragusa was amusing but could be vicious at times.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2024
• At the time of writing this piece, almost 200 Starbucks stores have unionized, in the face of vicious union-busting.
  — Micah Uetricht, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
• There was a vicious cycle that was set in motion by the mortgage crisis.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024
• Mahito meets a woman named Kiriko, who saves him from a flock of vicious pelicans and shows him how to skin and carve a fish.
  — Moeko Fujii, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• Yeoh is fierce and cutthroat in the role, alternately motherly and vicious from one turn to the next.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• The show’s take is less vicious, but her complexity is gone.
  — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
• Volkmer: The state seeking the death penalty should be limited to the most brutal and vicious, worst of the worst, cases.
  — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
• That forces him to descend the 8,000-foot-and-higher safety zone of the Rocky Mountains, and into the lower-elevation danger zone where vicious monsters roam free.
  — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
• But then the passenger slugs the worker with a vicious left hook, knocking the helpless worker backwards and shocking onlookers.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024