Main entry: venomous, vicious, poisonous
Definition: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
Usage: poisonous hate; venomous criticism; vicious gossip
Main entry: brutal, barbarous, cruel, vicious, savage, roughshod, fell
Definition: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Usage: a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks
Main entry: vicious, reprehensible, condemnable, criminal, deplorable
Definition: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
Usage: a criminal waste of talent; a deplorable act of violence; adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
Definition: having the nature of vice