Reverse Dictionary: VICIOUS

ADJECTIVES
► AMBITIOUS of persons or animals: spirited, vivacious, unruly; vicious; angry; enraged; quick-tempered; hot-tempered → 1853 Amer. dial.
► ASS-KICKING forceful, aggressive, vicious, thuggish → 1970s sl.
► FELL-BRED of a vicious kind → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FLAGITIOUS atrociously wicked; vicious; outrageous → 14C
► GAFTY sly, tricky, cunning, not to be trusted; mischievous, vicious → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL vicious, bad-tempered, cross, angry, peevish, fretful, morose, unpleasant → 1857 Amer. dial.
► IMPERFECT positively faulty, vicious, evil → 1377 obs.
► MEAN AS A STRIPED SNAKE ► MEAN AS STRIPED-TAILED SNAKES very vicious or contemptible → 1940 Amer. dial.
► MEANER THAN A RATTLESNAKE very vicious or contemptible → 1965 Amer. dial.
► MEANER THAN A SNAKE very vicious or contemptible → 1880 Amer. dial.
► MEANER THAN SNAKE SHIT very vicious or contemptible → 1965 Amer. dial.
► MISCHIEFFUL of an act: vicious, wicked → 1400 obs.
► NAUGHT immoral, vicious → 1550 obs.
► NAUGHTY of an animal: vicious → 1586 obs.
► SEVERE wild, untamed, fierce, vicious, savage → 1829 Amer. dial.
► STOMP-ASS violent and pugilistic; rough and vicious → 1970s US sl.
► VEEPERIT vicious, venomous → 1903 Sc.
► VIGRUS of humans or animals: angry, vicious → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► VITRID ► VITRIT angry, malicious, vicious, bitter → 1885 Eng. dial.
► WICKED ill-natured, savage, vicious → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)

ADVERBS
► NAUGHTILY wickedly, viciously → 1552 obs.
► VENGEOUSLY violently, viciously → 1599 obs.

NOUNS
► NAUGHTINESS wickedness, viciousness, depravity → 1541 obs.
► SANNUP anything vicious, as a cross setting hen → 1959 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAD DOG a dishonest person; a vicious person; a no-good person → 1945 criminals’ sl.  (Bk.)
► JADEHOPPER a lewd or vicious woman; also, one who is only mischievous and lively → 1916 Amer. dial.
► LAPLING a vicious fellow → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLL CUTPURSE a woman of thoroughly vicious character → 1922 (Bk.)
► MUDGUARD a person whose outward geniality masks a vicious nature → 1989 Aust. sl.
► SCUNGE a sly or vicious person → 1824 colloq., orig. Sc.
► TAISTRIL ► TAISTRILL ► TEASTRIL a vicious, ill-conditioned person; a crabbed, peevish fellow → 1869 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VENIM ► VENOM a spiteful, vicious person or animal; a very objectionable creature → 1898 Sc.
► YAD a term of contempt for a woman, often one of slovenly or dissolute habits, or of a vicious nature → 1787 Sc.

VERBS
► COME THE ACID OVER to act sharply or viciously towards → 1981 NZ colloq. (Bk.)