viciousness

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for viciousness
Noun
  • Global banks aren’t necessarily acting out of malice.
    Wale Ayeni, semafor.com, 14 July 2025
  • Beneath the inevitable finger-pointing and politicizing, there is often a genuine, even desperate, human impulse to find fault not out of malice, but out of mourning and a desire to find solutions.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The new law adds to existing municipal ordinances that forbid animal cruelty or neglect, including leaving a pet in too small of a space or outside in the hot Florida sun.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
  • In that sense, the suicide was a final act of cruelty.
    Tony Cook, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Guitarist Tom Bukovac composed a flowing instrumental riff to open the performance, creating a little extra sweetness that helps hide the passive-aggressive venom.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 24 July 2025
  • Though a bite from any rattlesnake is dangerous and should be treated immediately, the Mojave rattlesnake packs one of the most potent venoms with a nasty neurotoxic twist that can affect your nervous system.
    Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • For Sarah, eros serves as a powerful conduit for the divine, but the divine is not without brutality nor chaos.
    Terry Nguyen July 23, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
  • President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and their supporters are celebrating the brutality of the 3,000-bed detention facility that was hastily built in the Florida Everglades, one of the harshest natural environments in the United States.
    Time, Time, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Many were subjected to many forms of hatred spawned from these misunderstandings.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 21 July 2025
  • Despite his extensive progressive bona fides, Wertham’s hatred of the comics medium has forever branded him a right-wing zealot in the minds of comic fans.
    Vasilis K. Pozios, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2025
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“Viciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/viciousness. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.

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