Definition of "vitious" []

• See vicious, viciously, viciousness.

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The implements of popish superstition; such as relicks of pretended saints, ill-proportioned spires and bellfreys, and the nauseous repetition of the figure of the cross, which is in itself a very mean and disagreeable object, only fit for the prisons of condemned criminals, have contributed to introduce a vitious taste into the external architecture, as well as in the internal ornaments of our temples."
• "The people of condition here speak both languages equally well; or, rather, equally ill; for they use a low, uncouth phraseology; and their pronunciation is extremely vitious."
• "Euripides, which was instantly censured for the introduction of a vitious sentiment in favour of riches."