| 释义 |
vicious /vishˈəs/ adjective- Malignant, spiteful, cruel
- Bad-tempered
- Addicted to vice or bad habits
- Immoral, depraved
- Bad
- Faulty
- (also vitˈious) impaired, nullified by a flaw, unlawful (law)
- Mistaken (Shakespeare)
- Foul, impure, morbid (obsolete medicine, etc)
ORIGIN: OFr vicieus, from L vitiōsus faulty, vicious vicˈiously adverb vicˈiousness noun vicious circle noun - Reasoning in a circle, seeking to prove a proposition by means of a conclusion drawn from it
- A process in which an evil is aggravated by its own consequences
vicious intromission see under intromit |