Sentence examples for have been vicious from inspiring English sources

The criticism would have been vicious.

The Taliban have been vicious repressors in that country.

So far this election cycle, French voters have been vicious in throwing out the symbols of entrenched power.

But the public comment periods at its meetings have been vicious, with commissioners being likened to cockroaches and lawbreaking being alleged at every turn.

For decades it had been common to hear members of the Chilean elite claim that "Pinochet may have been vicious but at least he was honest," and many had donated money for his defense and living expenses in London.

There also have been vicious xenophobic diatribes from conservative legislators and puzzlement on the part of citizens trying to grasp the relevance of a wall-size portrait of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California with a basketball hoop on his forehead, or a group of giant red figurines perched on a downtown square and nearby rooftop.

The campaign has been vicious.

She'd been stupid, granted, but Bob had been vicious.

"The violence has been vicious and primarily directed toward civilians and is increasingly sectarian," she said.

Even by Washington standards — even by Susan Rice standards — his treatment has been vicious.

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