vicious
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From Anglo-Norman vicious, Old French vicious (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“‘fault, vice’”).
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vicious (comparative more vicious, superlative most vicious)
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- Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 195:
- We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vitious.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 195:
- Evil, immoral or depraved.
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
- Savage and aggressive.