| 单词 | viciously |
| 释义 | viciously (once / 2842 pages) adv When you do something viciously, you do it in a cruel or brutal way. A bully might viciously shove a smaller child, knocking him to the ground. You might have seen someone delight in crushing a bug under his shoe — you can say that he does it viciously. You might also describe your angry little brother as viciously pummeling you as you pass by, if he's furiously hitting and kicking. Viciously comes from the adjective vicious, which originally meant "of the nature of vice, or wicked." The Latin root, vitiosus, means "faulty, defective, or corrupt." WORD FAMILYvicious: viciousest, viciously, viciousness+/vice: vices, vicious USAGE EXAMPLESThe movie, and the way it was received and viciously attacked online, told us something vital about the hive mind of the US’s reactionary right. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Last month, a two-minute video showing a group of men viciously beating a hijra was widely circulated on social media. The Guardian(Dec 25, 2016) He slammed Rexnord Corp. for “viciously firing” workers in Indianapolis as part of a shift of operations south of the border. Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) adv in a vicious manner he was viciously attacked Syn brutally, savagely |
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