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English to English adjective
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Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | | Example: a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
vicious kicks
source: wordnet30
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having the nature of vice | | source: wordnet30
| 4 |
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | | Example: a criminal waste of talent
a deplorable act of violence
adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
source: wordnet30
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marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | | Example: poisonous hate
venomous criticism
vicious gossip
source: wordnet30
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