VICIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viciously mean? 

• VICIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb VICIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a vicious manner

  Familiarity information: VICIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a vicious manner

Synonyms:

brutally; savagely; viciously

Context example:

he was viciously attacked

Pertainym:

vicious ((of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)

 Context examples 

His heavy face was gorged and the veins stood out on his low forehead, while his fierce grey eyes looked viciously from man to man in quest of a quarrel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The surprise and hurt of it brought a yelp out of White Fang; but the next moment, in a rush of anger, he was upon Lip-lip and snapping viciously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mr. Rochester flung me behind him: the lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He crinkled the paper viciously and resumed his reading.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thomas Mugridge backed away, glaring as hatefully and viciously as I glared.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

While Amy dressed, she issued her orders, and Jo obeyed them, not without entering her protest, however, for she sighed as she rustled into her new organdie, frowned darkly at herself as she tied her bonnet strings in an irreproachable bow, wrestled viciously with pins as she put on her collar, wrinkled up her features generally as she shook out the handkerchief, whose embroidery was as irritating to her nose as the present mission was to her feelings, and when she had squeezed her hands into tight gloves with three buttons and a tassel, as the last touch of elegance, she turned to Amy with an imbecile expression of countenance, saying meekly...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Wilson led viciously with his left, but misjudged his distance, receiving a smashing counter on the mark in reply which sent him reeling and gasping to the ropes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then again a few seconds of silent tension, when Wilson led viciously at the head, but Harrison took it on his forearm, smiling and nodding at his opponent.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His heavy-jowled, clean-shaven face expressed ferocity as well as courage, and he stood with his small, blood-shot eyes fixed viciously upon Jim, and his lumpy shoulders stooping a little forwards, like a fierce hound training on a leash.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)