"vicious rivalry" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative and competitive rivalry between two or more parties. For example, "The recent vicious rivalry between the two teams has been detrimental to the sport."
Maybe Killing Season is going to be about their vicious rivalry.
The McLaren drivers were known for their vicious rivalry on the track and their battles within the team.
But for some -- and Spanish cabdrivers, it must be said, seem to number high among their ranks -- the revelation provokes a gleeful, even vicious, rivalry.
Instead the vote, organised by a little-known Swiss film-maker and businessman, sparked vicious rivalry, bickering, backstabbing and allegations of corruption among the 21 finalists.
The hearing for Dmitrichenko, 29, set 22 October as the start date for the trial, which is expected to dredge up the murky intrigue and vicious rivalry that exists backstage in one of Russia's grandest cultural theatres.
In the days that followed, Shaaliver came to embody the worst possibilities of urban teenage life: a repeat offender caught up in a vicious rivalry with other gang members, one that erupted into violence at a time when most boys his age are home, safely asleep.
THE commercial theater is famous for "creative differences" — also known as vicious rivalries, titanic egos, abrupt firings, explosive fights and nasty backbiting.
In recent years Esparragoza's conciliatory image has meant he has rarely been publicly associated with the vicious rivalries within and between cartels that underpin much of the brutal drug war violence in Mexico since 2005.
I learned about the vicious rivalries, the bitter feuds, the drug deaths, the judging fiascos, the nobility and the sacrifice and the determination, the redemptive power of posing to music in a tiny pair of spangly trunks.
Just two days later, he went ahead and played the Smile Jamaica concert designed to cheer and unite the people ahead of the December 1976 general election, which was contested against a backdrop of vicious rivalries – between the gangs and the two main political parties – with the dons and politicians alike all seeing Bob as a figure they wanted on their side.
But more disturbing still is the vicious romantic rivalry growing between Natalie and Lydia.
