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How to use viciously in a sentence

18 example sentences · adverb

Viciously means in a vicious manner; ferociously or maliciously. Example: “The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony.”

More sentences with viciously

  • The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony.From the entry hegemony
  • At least he can tolerate her!" Donney smiles viciously at me.2021, Tally Vivarais, chapter 12, in The Silver Men, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry voluntell
  • Viciously massaging conditioner through her dripping hair, Paula lets the footage play to the cringeful end.2011, Cath Kenneally, Jetty Road, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry cringeful
  • He slammed the door viciously, then winced, groaning, at the brain-stabbing noise.1999, Leonard Wolf, Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction, page 183. From the entry brain-stabbing
  • "Jee-zus!" Bobbie said, ramming her car viciously up Short Ridge Hill.1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28. From the entry time forgot
  • This sand,” he said vaguely; then he said it again, viciously, “this sand.1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 742. From the entry wasnt
  • Sweet mother of Moses! she thought, viciously whacking apart Lorna Peterson’s latest bunch of proofs.1947, Marjorie Holmes, Ten O’clock Scholar, J.B. Lippincott Company, page 15. From the entry sweet mother of Moses
  • All evening (with the foreknowledge of this now goading them into joyness) they had had a fine time. a viciously.2012, James Jones, George Hendrick, From Here to Eternity: A Novel. From the entry joyness
  • Less than a minute to go and she's chewing almost viciously, her stuffed cheeks all chipmunked out like Dizzy Gillespie's in midsolo.2006, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book. From the entry chipmunk
  • He wiped the lady’s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of veronica of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron. From the entry veronica
  • With one chain-lightning motion, he kneed Acey viciously in the belly, and, with his right hand, chopped him across the side of the neck.1986, Joseph R. Rosenberger, chapter 4, in The Heroin Connection, page 55. From the entry chain lightning
  • "There's old Stephen Grant coming in," exclaimed Peg viciously, shaking her floury fist at him, "and looking as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.1913, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in The Golden Road. From the entry butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
  • It was another one of those nights for the Jenkinses: getting drunk, fighting viciously, making up, making love, and, inevitably, bespewing each other before it was all over.2025, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved English. From the entry bespew
  • “How dare you put your hands on my things!” she screamed and growled, slapping and scratching at his face, pulling viciously on the collar of his shirt.2010, J. D. Mason, Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It: A Novel, page 84. From the entry put one's hands on
  • I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72. From the entry glass
  • There were seventeen others there with him, and after being viciously beaten they were moved to the Hokang Reformatory and forced to mine coal in the Tungshan mines.[1964, Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, “From Fear to Recognizing my Guilt”, in W. J. F. Jenner, transl., From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of…. From the entry Hegang
  • By his side padded a big ruffianly collie, and he led by a string a miserable-looking terrier, at which the collie now and then snapped viciously.1930 July, John Buchan, “The First Day of the Hegira—The Inn at Watermeeting”, in Castle Gay, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton…. From the entry ruffianly
  • Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chip-chip-chipping at them as they went by.1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rowdy of the Cross L. From the entry anathematize

Meaning of viciously

  1. adverb In a vicious manner; ferociously or maliciously.

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Questions about viciously in a sentence

How do you use viciously in a sentence?
Viciously is used as an adverb. For example: “The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony.”
What is a short sentence with viciously?
“The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony.”
What does viciously mean?
Viciously means in a vicious manner; ferociously or maliciously.

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