Modifies a noun

• circle: People may have been caught in a vicious circle out of which there seemed no escape.

• cycle: A vicious cycle of deceit is too easily set up.

• spiral: Raising prices to compensate only leads to a ' vicious spiral ' of further cancelations.

• thug: Maybe some of them are vicious little thugs that need a break.

• rumor: I was going through a marriage break-up, being dropped and having my personal life trashed by the most vicious rumors.

• beating: At some time during the next two to three hours he received a vicious beating.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: Shaker suffered particularly vicious torture in the Dark Prison in Kabul.

• quite: I think all children and all humans are essentially quite vicious given the chance.

• extremely: They can be extremely vicious and are destroying masses of our wildlife.

• pretty: Socialist Unity: Michael Howard has recently made some pretty vicious remarks about travelers, what is your opinion on this issue?

• so: Mouse makes you laugh, he's so vicious.

• really: This shivering would then turn into a really vicious contraction.

Used with adjective complement

• turn: At the same time Knight would turn vicious the minute any artist tried to take their music elsewhere.

• get: The RahXephon's movements are fast and fluid during the various battles, which do get pretty vicious from time to time.

• sound: The standard bikes sound good and throaty, but with a free breathing pipe they sound vicious, more Wagner.

• look: There was a moment when it looked really vicious.

• write: And so he writes vicious, vicious lies.. .