Vicious

(a.) Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

(a.) Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.

(a.) Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.

(a.) Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.

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

(a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant.

校对:莱利亚

• For what does reason discover, when it pronounces any action vicious? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Monsieur curled his lip, gave me a vicious glance of the eye, and strode to his estrade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There's a vicious point hit already, she said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Anyhow, a solitary, vicious, underground life was the life the Colonel led. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And whether it is negro slavery or a vicious sexual bondage, the actual advance comes from substitutions injected into society by dynamic social forces. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• However, as soon as he could be heard through Mr. Smallweed's coughing and his vicious ejaculations of Oh, my bones! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The cockatoo, a most vicious and treacherous bird towards every one else, absolutely seems to love him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• However, a fine thing must not be deplored because it is open to vicious caricature. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• If any action be either virtuous or vicious, it is only as a sign of some quality or character. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Take any action allowed to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He ended a string of abuse by a vicious backhander, which I failed to entirely avoid. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The fingers of the knitting women were vicious, with the experience that they could tear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• What if he be a vicious man, and deserves the hatred of all mankind? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It seldom happens, that we do not think an enemy vicious, and can distinguish betwixt his opposition to our interest and real villainy or baseness. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• An action, or sentiment, or character is virtuous or vicious; why? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Then, the more violent syndicalism proves itself to be, the more hysterically we bait it in the usual vicious circle of ignorance. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is to make you feel your life strongly--not only your virtues, but your vicious, perverse points. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They only say, that reason can discover such an action, In such relations, to be virtuous, and such another vicious. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• You see, my dear, added Miss Sarah Pocket (a blandly vicious personage), the question to put to yourself is, who did you expect to thank you, my love? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• We are not, however, to imagine, that all the angry passions are vicious, though they are disagreeable. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• As a body they lived lives of conspicuous virtue and purity in a violent, undisciplined, and vicious age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This was a vicious child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• You see in the desolate young savage nothing vicious or vacant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As the game became more universally played, a better class of billiard-room keepers entered the commercial field, thus helping to eliminate the incompetent and vicious. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The greater degree there is of these blameable qualities, the more vicious they become, and yet they are the less voluntary. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• With vicious relish he brought up the most spicy current continental historical falsehoods--than which nothing can be conceived more offensive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The first is virtuous, the second vicious. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It is evident the former impression is not always vicious, nor the latter virtuous. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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