Vicious vs. Viscous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Vicious and Viscous
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Vicious
Deliberately cruel or violent
A vicious assault
Viscous
Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; having a high viscosity
Viscous lava
Vicious
Immoral
Every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish
Viscous
Having relatively high resistance to flow.
Vicious
(of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective.
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Viscous
Viscid; sticky.
Vicious
Mean-spirited or deliberately hurtful; malicious
Vicious gossip.
Viscous
Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid.
Vicious
Extremely violent or injurious; cruel
A vicious blow to the stomach.
Vicious tactics in suppressing a rebellion.
Viscous
(physics) Of or pertaining to viscosity.
Vicious
Marked by an aggressive disposition. Used chiefly of animals.
Viscous
Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice.
Vicious
Disposed to violent or destructive behavior
A vicious dictator.
Viscous
Having a relatively high resistance to flow
Vicious
Severe, powerful, or intense; fierce
A vicious storm.
Viscous
Having the properties of glue
Vicious
Having the nature of vice; evil, immoral, or depraved
"All men who succeed ... in finance in New York at last ... return to their native towns, assert that cities are vicious, marry their childhood sweethearts" (Sinclair Lewis).
Vicious
Given to vice, immorality, or depravity
"The sum and substance of it was, That Oliver was a foundling, born of low and vicious parents" (Charles Dickens).
Vicious
Faulty or defective
A forced, vicious style of prose.
Vicious
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Vicious
Savage and aggressive.
Vicious
(archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
Vicious
Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess.
The title of these lords was vicious in its origin.
A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning.
Vicious
Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
Who . . . heard this heavy curse,Servant of servants, on his vicious race.
Vicious
Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.
Vicious
Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
Vicious
Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
Vicious
Bitter; spiteful; malignant.
Vicious
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
A barbarous crime
Brutal beatings
Cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
A savage slap
Vicious kicks
Vicious
Having the nature of vice
Vicious
Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful;
A malevolent lie
Poisonous hate...in his eyes
Venomous criticism
Vicious gossip
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