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{
"term": "vicious",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "violent and cruel",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a vicious attack"
},
{
"text": "a vicious criminal"
},
{
"text": "She has a vicious temper."
},
{
"text": "Police described the robbery as particularly vicious."
},
{
"text": "a particularly vicious and brutal crime"
},
{
"text": "He was set upon by vicious thugs."
},
{
"text": "This was a particularly vicious assault."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "aggressive and dangerous",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a vicious dog"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "full of hate and anger",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She wrote me a vicious letter."
},
{
"text": "The newspapers launched a vicious attack on him, forcing him to resign."
},
{
"text": "The article was vicious in its criticism of the prime minister."
},
{
"text": "I've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations."
},
{
"text": "She wrote me a vicious letter after the incident."
},
{
"text": "The committee was particularly vicious in its criticism of the management."
},
{
"text": "They conducted a vicious campaign of misinformation and propaganda."
},
{
"text": "The play is a vicious attack on the nouveau riche."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "very bad or severe",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a vicious headache"
},
{
"text": "a **vicious spiral** of rising prices"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈvɪʃəs/",
"audio": "vi/vicious/vicious__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈvɪʃəs/",
"audio": "vi/vicious/vicious__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘characterized by immorality’): from Old French vicious or Latin vitiosus, from vitium ‘vice’."
}