vicious
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
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Savage and aggressive.
— He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
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Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
— We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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词源
PIE word
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From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous.
*dwóh₁
From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous.
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