What is the meaning of vicious?

Of persons or their actions. ( able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)
- usage: "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
- synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage
Having the nature of vice.
- synonyms: evil
Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure.
- usage: "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
- synonyms: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible
Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful.
- usage: "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"
- synonyms: poisonous, venomous

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