vicious

adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict

pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal

beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod

treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious

kicks" [syn: {barbarous}, {brutal}, {cruel}, {fell}, {roughshod},

{savage}]

2: having the nature of vice [syn: {depraved}, {evil}]

3: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent

lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway;

"venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: {poisonous},

{venomous}]