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| barbarity |
cruel or vicious behavior. [1/3 definitions] |
| butcher |
someone who has committed many, or extremely vicious, murders. [1/6 definitions] |
| cheap shot |
an unnecessarily vicious remark or action against someone who has no ready defense. [1/2 definitions] |
| dogfight |
any violent or vicious conflict, esp. an air battle between fighter planes. [1/4 definitions] |
| fierce |
dangerously wild, hostile, or vicious; ferocious. [1/4 definitions] |
| fiercely |
in a dangerously wild, hostile, or vicious manner. [1/3 definitions] |
| meanly |
in a base or vicious manner. [1/2 definitions] |
| meanness |
the state or characteristic of being vicious or inhumane. [1/2 definitions] |
| poisonous |
full of malice; vicious; venomous. [1/3 definitions] |
| rogue |
a vicious animal that has been isolated from the herd, esp. a solitary elephant of that disposition. [1/6 definitions] |
| savage |
a cruel, vicious, or ferocious person. [1/9 definitions] |
| snarl1 |
of a dog or other animal, to growl in a threatening or vicious way, esp. with bared teeth. [2/5 definitions] |
| Sodom |
any place that is considered to be vicious and corrupt. [1/2 definitions] |
| tar and feather |
to punish with vicious criticism. [1/2 definitions] |
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