Vicious

Examples

• For what does reason discover, when it pronounces any action vicious? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Monsieur curled his lip, gave me a vicious glance of the eye, and strode to his estrade. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There's a vicious point hit already, she said. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Anyhow, a solitary, vicious, underground life was the life the Colonel led. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And whether it is negro slavery or a vicious sexual bondage, the actual advance comes from substitutions injected into society by dynamic social forces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• However, as soon as he could be heard through Mr. Smallweed's coughing and his vicious ejaculations of Oh, my bones! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The cockatoo, a most vicious and treacherous bird towards every one else, absolutely seems to love him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• However, a fine thing must not be deplored because it is open to vicious caricature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• If any action be either virtuous or vicious, it is only as a sign of some quality or character. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Take any action allowed to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He ended a string of abuse by a vicious backhander, which I failed to entirely avoid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The fingers of the knitting women were vicious, with the experience that they could tear. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• What if he be a vicious man, and deserves the hatred of all mankind? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It seldom happens, that we do not think an enemy vicious, and can distinguish betwixt his opposition to our interest and real villainy or baseness. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• An action, or sentiment, or character is virtuous or vicious; why? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Then, the more violent syndicalism proves itself to be, the more hysterically we bait it in the usual vicious circle of ignorance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is to make you feel your life strongly--not only your virtues, but your vicious, perverse points. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They only say, that reason can discover such an action, In such relations, to be virtuous, and such another vicious. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• You see, my dear, added Miss Sarah Pocket (a blandly vicious personage), the question to put to yourself is, who did you expect to thank you, my love? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We are not, however, to imagine, that all the angry passions are vicious, though they are disagreeable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• As a body they lived lives of conspicuous virtue and purity in a violent, undisciplined, and vicious age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was a vicious child. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You see in the desolate young savage nothing vicious or vacant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As the game became more universally played, a better class of billiard-room keepers entered the commercial field, thus helping to eliminate the incompetent and vicious. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The greater degree there is of these blameable qualities, the more vicious they become, and yet they are the less voluntary. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• With vicious relish he brought up the most spicy current continental historical falsehoods--than which nothing can be conceived more offensive. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The first is virtuous, the second vicious. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is evident the former impression is not always vicious, nor the latter virtuous. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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