Sentence examples for be vicious to from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Auerbach saw firsthand, Bacon made a show of being courtly with strangers but could be vicious to those close to him.

Last week, some anonymous postings on racing Web site message boards were vicious to Marlin.

Though friendly with important visitors, Kim is vicious to his own people.

But while the Tories had been vicious to the poor, it transpired that New Labour had its own nasty streak.

"My mother described it as an incredible situation in which you had this sadistic, horrible man being vicious to his young heiress wife," James said.

She went on to say that nothing could prepare a person to be the child of a Presidential candidate, and that the media has been "vicious" to her and her family.

Charles Fried, who was President Ronald Reagan's solicitor general at the time and is now a professor at Harvard Law School, said that Mr. Kennedy had been "vicious" to Mr. Bork and unfair to subsequent Republican nominees.

But when he got in that grouping of the team and on the buses and the planes, and had a few cocktails in him, he was vicious to a lot of guys.

If you think the Republicans have been vicious to each other, just wait until they and their Super PACs turn their attention to you.

Making friends is always a good idea in law, simply because lawyers are notorious for being vicious to people they don't like, or don't know, simply because that's what they are paid to do.

A name doesn't have to be "vicious" in order to be great, however.