Sentence examples for vicious for from inspiring English sources
The prime minister responded with a threat that was no less vicious for coming in the guise of a joke.
He is vicious, for example, in his mockery of petit bourgeois values, which, naturally, include attitudes toward sex.
How far did Taylor's film go in toning that down, or was it still surprisingly vicious for a Hollywood thriller?
Ironically, Kent's willingness to live by his own credo would ultimately help make him the whipping boy – literally, at the chain-wielding hands of Sid Vicious – for punk rock's disingenuous determination to present itself as a clean break with the music that preceded it.
"I created Punk for this day and age... I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation" says Avril Lavigne.
In the last episode though, after Spike fights Vicious for the final time, the end title card instead borrows from a Beatles lyric: "YOU'RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT".
But Frances De La Tour (for Vicious), Kerry Howard (for Him & Her: The Wedding), Doon Mackichan (for Plebs) and Katherine Parkinson (for The IT Crowd) seems like a refreshing list of names (a change from Miranda Hart, anyway).
You have come in for some quite vicious criticism for your art, and your perceived influence.
Many left their rural hometowns for the more prosperous cities only to face vicious competition for scarce white-collar jobs.
This is the newest twist in the battle for eyeballs on prime time television where a vicious war for higher ratings broke out around two years ago.
People struggled with hunger and a vicious competition for survival.
