vi·cious /ˈvɪʃəs/
(a.)邪惡的,墮落的,品性不端的,惡毒的,惡性的,有錯誤的
vi·cious /ˈvɪʃəs/ 形容詞
缺陷的,畸形的
Vi·cious a.
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.
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.
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vicious
adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict
pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal
beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod
treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious
kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod,
savage]
2: having the nature of vice [syn: depraved, evil]
3: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent
lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway;
"venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous,
venomous]