overvicious

Adjective

overvicious (comparative more overvicious, superlative most overvicious)

1. (rare) Overly vicious.
   • I turned around. Two Irkrmrian soldiers were standing behind me. They were oversided, overmuscled and overvicious. Their mothers must have suffered terrible pain during their birth. They had no guns, but they did not need any. Booth looked as if nature had drilled them to kill. That meant that the...1830, Aristotle, The Works of Aristotle, Miller, Law, and Carter, page 34
   • Vicious tackles — the ones which you hear all over the stadium, and which make the back teeth of the spectators in the top row rattle—are the most fun. Two years ago Art Franks, the Navy quarterback, hit Columbia’s Sid Luckman so hard you could almost hear Luckman’s bones crunch. Everyone thought...1939, The American Magazine, The American Magazine: Volume 128, #6, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 158