adjective
- given to or characterized by vice; evil, corrupt, or depraved
- tending to deprave or corrupt; pernicious: vicious interests
- harmful, unwholesome, or noxious: a vicious concoction
- ruined by defects, flaws, or errors; full of faults: a vicious argument
- having bad or harmful habits; unruly: a vicious horse
- malicious; spiteful; mean: a vicious rumor
- very intense, forceful, sharp, etc.: a vicious blow
Origin:
ME < OFr vicieus < L vitiosus, full of faults, corrupt, vicious < vitium, vice