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Meaning of vicious

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}, {vicious}]
      2: having the nature of vice [syn: {evil}, {vicious}]
      3: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal
         waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery
         is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn:
         {condemnable}, {criminal}, {deplorable}, {reprehensible},
         {vicious}]
      4: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous
         hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn:
         {poisonous}, {venomous}, {vicious}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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