Vicious vs Ruthless - What's the difference?
vicious | ruthless |
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.
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Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
* 1725 , , Volume I, Bernard Lintot,
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
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* (obsolete)Adjective
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* vicious circleruthless
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(wikipedia ruthless) (en adjective)page 10:
- At length their rage the ho?tile Pow’rs re?train, / All but the ruthle?s Monarch of the Main.