Sentence examples for vicious traits from inspiring English sources
The phrase "vicious traits" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe negative or harmful characteristics of a person or behavior.
Example: "His vicious traits often alienated those around him, making it difficult to form lasting relationships."
Alternatives: "malicious characteristics" or "cruel tendencies."
They did not consider the risk that men trying to convince themselves of their strength and virtue through dehumanising others can assume the most vicious traits of their enemies.
With all the incumbent hype, one might have expected that Going Rogue would have risen above many of the petty and even vicious traits that Palin exhibited on the campaign trail last fall revving up the GOP faithful with incendiary attacks on Obama.
Closed-mindedness is an epistemically vicious character trait, prejudice an epistemically vicious attitude and wishful thinking an epistemically vicious way of thinking.
We usually judge acts as virtuous or vicious based on our assessment of the traits that we think motivate them.
We distinguish which traits are virtuous and which are vicious by means of our feelings of approval and disapproval toward the traits; our approval of actions is derived from approval of the traits we suppose to have given rise to them.
Exactly which traits were being selected for by this vicious process remains a mystery, but with the discovery of so many birds living with cataracts it seems likely that being able to function with limited vision is one.
The parallels are all there – distrust of difference, penchant for the mob, love of vicious gossip, cheap showboating, desire for vengeance: basically, most of the worst human traits – but without ever particularly beating us over the head with them.
However, the resurgence of dogfighting illegal in the United States, Great Britain, and many other countries—has led to irresponsible breeders encouraging such traits in their animals and mistreating them in order to induce a vicious temperament.
The force of the thought that one should not feel contempt or shame at such traits might depend on the judgment that it would be unfair, or otherwise vicious, to feel contempt or shame at those traits for which the bearer is not responsible.
Yet they might nevertheless bear on whether to have the state (because amusement is vicious or shame counterproductive) without bearing on the value of the object (whether the joke is hilarious or the trait shameful).
