Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with vicious in American Collocation
vicious
adjective
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/ˈvɪʃəs/
extremely
downright
extremely
particularly
really
The tribunal described the treatment she had received as ‘inhumane’ and ‘downright vicious’.
rather
pretty
quite
rather
From what I was told, I was quite vicious to the nurses because I thought I was being tortured.
more and more
increasingly
Her notes are getting increasingly vicious.
physical attack or crime
assault
attack
beating
crime
fighting
murder
He and seven colleagues were subjected to three days of vicious beatings.
things people say
attack
campaign
rumours
These vicious rumours have no truth in them at all.
person
dictator
killer
tyrant
Hollywood has shown them as vicious killers ready to attack humans at the slightest provocation.
political system
dictatorship
regime
Its people have been fighting a revolutionary war for the past forty years against a vicious, imperialistic regime.