vicious
vi.cious \'vish-*s\ aj 1: having the nature or quality or vice or
immorality : DEPRAVED 2: DEFECTIVE, FAULTY; also : INVALID 3: IMPURE,
NOXIOUS 4: dangerously aggressive : SAVAGE 5: MALICIOUS, SPITEFUL 6:
worsened by internal causes that reciprocally augment each other {@
wage-price spiral}M, INFAMOUS, CORRUPT, DEGENERATE: VICIOUS may directly
oppose, virtuous in implying moral depravity, or may connote malignancy,
cruelty, or destructive violence; VILLAINOUS applies to any evil, depraved,
or vile conduct or characteristic; INIQUITOUS implies absence of all signs
of justice or fairness; NEFARIOUS suggests flagrant breaching of
time-honored laws and traditions of conduct; FLAGITIOUS and INFAMOUS
suggest shameful and scandalous wickedness; CORRUPT stresses a loss of
moral integrity or probity causing betrayal of principle or sworn
obligations; DEGENERATE suggests having sunk to an esp. vicious or
enervated condition - vi.cious.ly av SYN syn VILLAINOUS, INIQUITOUS,
NEFARIOUS, FLAGITIOUS