This can lead borrowers to take out another high-interest loan to pay off the last one, leading them into a vicious cycle that only profits the person who owns their debt.
Apple is tougher on predatory lenders than the US government|Tim Fernholz|October 6, 2020|Quartz
They also viewed the vicious conversations in private groups as more deserving of protection than other types of content.
As QAnon grew, Facebook and Twitter missed years of warning signs about the conspiracy theory’s violent nature|Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin|October 1, 2020|Washington Post
These patterns are all part of a vicious cycle that has been feeding on itself for decades.
Why There Are So Few Moderate Republicans Left|Lee Drutman (drutman@newamerica.org)|August 24, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Worse yet, perhaps, are the cases of vicious genetic self-promotion at the expense of others—not content with enhancing the numerator, but actively diminishing the denominator.
Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good - Issue 89: The Dark Side|David P. Barash|August 19, 2020|Nautilus
Our Jesse Marx reported Friday that the man who spread vicious robocalls about it now says he was working for the family of another GOP candidate.
Politics Report: What Comes Next for Sports Arena|Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts|July 11, 2020|Voice of San Diego
“Vicious pecking, avian hysteria, mysterious deaths, and even cannibalism” are the results, he writes.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The late-November hacking of Sony, perhaps the most vicious episode of its kind, comes at the end of the period of mourning.
Kim Jong Un’s Kid Gloves Are Now Off|Gordon G. Chang|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But most of all, Ramone lingered on Vicious, whom he painted and drew over and over again.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings|Melissa Leon|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She later sued him alleging a vicious cycle of abuse, and he settled with his ex-wife out of court for an undisclosed sum.
A hulking defender breaks into the backfield and takes him down with a vicious clothesline tackle.
Two New Films Preach Our Nation’s Corrosive Gridiron Gospel|Steve Almond|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He hoped that they expected him; he would smack his lips over the vicious joy of disappointing them.
A Yankee from the West|Opie Read
They had met and defeated a slimy, vicious enemy that had done its best to drag them down, and their spirits lifted accordingly.
The Lost Wagon|James Arthur Kjelgaard
By a repetition of vicious acts, evil habits have been formed within us, and have rivetted the fetters of sin.
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.|William Wilberforce
A man's desire may lead him through devious ways both vile and vicious,—but a man's love leads only one way to one woman!
Temporal Power|Marie Corelli
Reid's "plain statement of fact" is not a true statement of observed fact; it is a vicious statement of conjectured fact.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847|Various
British Dictionary definitions for vicious
vicious
/ (ˈvɪʃəs) /
adjective
wicked or cruel; villainousa vicious thug
characterized by violence or ferocitya vicious blow
informalunpleasantly severe; harsha vicious wind
characterized by malicevicious lies
(esp of dogs, horses, etc) ferocious or hostile; dangerous
characterized by or leading to vice
invalidated by defects; unsounda vicious inference
obsoletenoxious or morbida vicious exhalation
Derived forms of vicious
viciously, adverbviciousness, noun
Word Origin for vicious
C14: from Old French vicieus, from Latin vitiōsus full of faults, from vitium a defect