Angry vs Vicious - What's the difference?
angry | vicious |
Displaying or feeling anger.
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(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
Dark and stormy, menacing.
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Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
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*:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
Evil, immoral or depraved.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Savage and aggressive.
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As adjectives the difference between angry and vicious
is that angry is displaying or feeling anger while vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.angry
English
Adjective
(er)- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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