Vicious: alternatives and connections

Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.

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Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.

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Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.

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Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.

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imp. of Wring. Wrung.

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imp. of Wring. Wrung.

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The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

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The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

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A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

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A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

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Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

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Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

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Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

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Guilty of crime or sin.

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See Crewel.

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Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.

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Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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of Fall

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Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

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Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable.

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Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.

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Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

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Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.

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