VICIOUS in a Sentence

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The elevator, with its cupola on the ridge of a shingled roof, resembled a broad-shouldered man with a small, vicious, pointed head.

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 Meanings and Examples of VICIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vicious
 a.  by vice or defects; defective; imperfect; having the nature of vice; evil, immoral, or depraved
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Those consigned to the fields were the ones least willing or able to learn, the least energetic, the least honest and trustworthy, the most vicious and brutish.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  The contrast between the dirty, hairy old man and the four neat, fastidious ladies was as great as though he were a grizzled, vicious old watchdog and they four small kittens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  The elevator, with its cupola on the ridge of a shingled roof, resembled a broad-shouldered man with a small, vicious, pointed head.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  I shall choose the most vicious, like Juanita Haydock and myself, as the shepherds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Carol tried to look at him, yet not look at the seeping blood, the crimson slash, the vicious scalpel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  The tilt of his head was full of character; his drawl was admirably vicious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  She considered her doubts vicious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Suppose he were sued by some vicious shrieking woman for malpractice.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  Ambrosch's feet had scarcely touched the ground when he lunged out with a vicious kick at Jake's stomach.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
10  Of these professional tramps a great many had, of course, been shiftless and vicious all their lives.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation, artfully labelled with the name of liberty.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  Madame Thenardier was vicious with Cosette.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
14  He was thought to be vicious, and no one knew what to do with him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
15  The name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
Example Sentence:
1  He was set upon by a vicious dog.
2  The police said that this was one of the most vicious attacks they'd ever seen.
3  The horse was huge and vicious.
4  These otters are particularly vicious beasties, with very sharp teeth.
5  His murder triggered vicious race riots.
6  Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man good throughout.
7  We must not only cease from the acts of sin, but we must get the vicious habits and inclinations weakened and destroyed.
8  It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about.
9  The beauty queen also spoke, defending herself against vicious attacks.
10  His insubordination is nothing but a vicious desire to make trouble.
11  Two grown men joined in a vicious hazing in the name of their college-fraternity chapter, beating a 45-year-old pledge so badly that he landed in the hospital.
12  The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.