vicious

• When I use the term vicious, it is for the sake of talking your language; for if we came to explanations, it might happen that you called vice what I call virtue, and virtue what I call vice Then we have the authors of the Opéra Comique, their actors and their actresses, and oftener still their managers, all people of resource and superior merit. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
• They were the unfortunate and the dispossessed rather than the vicious--men who were vagabonds because there was nothing for them to do, or petty thieves because they were starving. —  Beginnings of the American People
• "They are very vicious, and tremendously strong. —  Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers
• If my instinct did not tell me he was vicious, my ears would, for I hear many stories little to his credit And yet a brave man, goodwife, a faithful servant and an interesting fellow. —  Doom Castle
• Even though they may not be actually vicious, the reading of books which are not true to life, which carry home no great lesson, teach no sane or healthful philosophy, but are merely written to excite the passions, to stimulate a morbid curiosity, will ruin the best of minds in a very short time. —  Pushing to the Front

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