"vicious argument" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a heated and aggressive disagreement between individuals or groups. Here is an example: "The politician's campaign speech quickly devolved into a vicious argument with his opponent, filled with insults and accusations."
My parents got into a vicious argument.
After a vicious argument with the director, Hall grudgingly took the part.
Shanin and three colleagues protested in the senate: "We had a vicious argument.
Perhaps that was behind our subsequent vicious argument on the high street.
The book opens with Robert describing a vicious argument he had with Odile when he bought Morbier cheese rather than Gruyère, which ended with him pinning her to the supermarket's Plexiglas cheese counter.
At one point during his first marriage, his wife, Joan Baim, in the middle of a vicious argument, picked up a defrosting veal chop and threw it at his head.
As for my son, he may miss out on the shared imaginary world my sister and I grew up with, but nor will he have the vicious arguments.
Rita and Alfred are soon drowning, too, in their own whirlpool of grief and cruelty, pulling each other under with some of the most compellingly vicious arguments ever written for the stage.
If the history of the Tory party's vicious arguments on Europe is anything to go by, it will not be long before normal service is resumed and civil war starts up again.
The killing of US rapper XXXTentacion has set social media ablaze: vicious arguments have broken out about how to memorialise such a problematic figure, as fans pore over conspiracy theories about the perpetrator and even question if the rapper was killed at all.
It is not just in his political work that Chomsky is vicious in argument.
