[ˈvɪʃəs], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- deliberately cruel or violent
(e.g: a vicious assault)

- immoral
(e.g: every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish)

- (of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective


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Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘characterized by immorality’): from Old French vicious or Latin vitiosus, from vitium ‘vice’