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Example sentences for: vicious

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Like Chekhov, Keats was thrust by early family experiences into a vicious individualism that forever strained his metaphysics.
At once lethargic and vicious, he is roused from his decrepitude only by the prospect of inflicting discomfort or pain.
All this in contrast to the stark scene evident everywhere in East Timor, what the LAT calls "the most vicious and thorough scorched-earth exercise that Southeast Asia has seen since World War II."
Marilyn Manson is darker, more serious, and more vicious than Alice Cooper was.
When she played Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), she faithfully reproduced the writer's vocal cadences at the expense of such trifles as variety and intelligibility.