Sentence examples for a vicious boy from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a vicious boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a boy who is cruel, malicious, or aggressive in behavior.
Example: "The teacher was concerned about the impact of a vicious boy on the other students in the class."
Alternatives: "a cruel boy" or "a wicked boy".

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Snow "heaves Balls of Specks" into the sun's yellow eye like a vicious boy.

The Roths's son, Basil, is a vicious boy, about Jerome's age, who would have been sent to reform school had his father not bribed the borough's ruling Democratic machine.

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He was a vicious little boy.'' ''When did you last see the man?'' Oakwood said, with an unhappy suspicion of something like what she would say.

There's some evidence that absent fathers create a vicious cycle: boys grow up without positive male role models, get into trouble and then become absentee fathers themselves.

This is because, above all, it's a club, although a club that resembles a vicious British boys' school more than a tranquil retreat where gentlemen shoot billiards and read the evening paper.

Two brothers, aged 10 and 11, were charged with attempted murder and robbery today after a vicious attack on two boys aged 11 and nine in an isolated former railway cutting in South Yorkshire.

His flock, a vicious gaggle of preening boys and girls capable of igniting Twitter with the threat of violence to any non-believers, jump to his every defence at the same time as retweeting pictures  of little Floyd getting in and out of a Lamborghini with Justin Bieber by his side.

Mr. Wachtel did not seem to me to be a vicious killer but a troubled boy who did not have the easiest relationship with his mother, a beloved teacher at LaGuardia, the high school for the performing arts.

If a little Jewish boy befriends a vicious anti-semite in the waning days of the second world war, the film will not end happily.

On Wednesday, a startling video of a cat defending a young boy from a vicious attack by a dog went viral.

When Hollandsworth wrote the story of Dean Corll, a vicious serial killer of young boys in Houston, in the nineteen-seventies, it was the families of the victims who haunted him.

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