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Vicious vs Ruthless - What's the difference?

vicious | ruthless |

As adjectives the difference between vicious and ruthless

is that vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity while ruthless is without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.

vicious

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
  • *: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.
  • *
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * vicious circle

    ruthless

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia ruthless) (en adjective)
  • Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
  • * 1725 , , Volume I, Bernard Lintot, page 10:
  • At length their rage the ho?tile Pow’rs re?train, / All but the ruthle?s Monarch of the Main.

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