How to Use vicious in a Sentence

vicious

adjective

• I know you're upset with her, but there's no need to be vicious.
• And not just killed him but tore him apart in the way that Gilead taught her to be vicious.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 16 June 2021
• Shamet caught the ball and hammered it in off two steps over Hayes for the vicious and-one play.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
• In the wake of the vicious attack, a huge pool of blood was left trailing outside the store.
  — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 16 July 2025
• The public face of the pro-life movement looks at the moment loony and vicious.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• That's when the threats against her became even more vicious.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2021
• The vicious cycle of revenge is cycling on in The Last of Us.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 26 May 2025
• The vicious attack has stunned those who knew Tabby and his many fans around the world.
  — Patricia Meschino, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2022
• The move may have been for the best, as the vicious battle was just getting started.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
• Gross took a vicious hit from Ryan Reaves of the Golden Knights in the first period.
  — Jose M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2021
• This fight cuts to the heart of the often vicious disagreements about what role AI should have in our world.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• There was a vicious cycle of not working out and then putting on weight.
  — David Sharos, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• That top line is vicious, but the Huskies need not always rely on them.
  — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Villains are one thing, but then there is the vicious, cruel and bath-avoidant Mary.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 June 2024
• Years earlier the two had been in a vicious fight that put Abed in the hospital.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The storm came on the heels of a vicious nor’easter last weekend that brought blizzard conditions to many parts of the East Coast.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
• The payments set a vicious cycle that shows no signs of slowing.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• He’s known to fire off a vicious tweet (or whatever they’re called in the land of X) to call out the fearmongers.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• That’s when Evans, in a full sprint, blindsided Lattimore with a vicious hit in the back and knocked him to the ground.
  — Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
• Over the next dozen years, Haitian rebels and French soldiers waged a vicious war of attrition.
  — Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Whatever the reason, sailors say, the course took a vicious turn.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Panas then returned to the estate as a scrawny one-eyed chicken, bald and vicious.
  — Rachel Polonsky, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2021
• This is a vicious cycle that has been going on for far too long.
  — Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 May 2021
• Again, don’t expect a high number of reps, but expect a vicious pump at the end your drop set.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• His son Bashar took power, and in time proved to be an even more vicious tyrant than his father.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• That's what's happened in House of the Dragon season 2's vicious civil war, the Dance of the Dragons.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
• An inability to sleep can be the start of a vicious cycle.
  — Yuliya Klochan, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
• Lally’s job was to stop any mentions of the vicious dog, Chloe/Cora.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
• Sleep during menopause can be a vicious cycle, Holmes says.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 29 July 2025
• Three, there is tremendous fright here in the way Honeywell stock trades, The moves are particularly vicious.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 July 2025