Characterized by vice or imperfection; faulty; defective.Addicted to vice; habitually transgressing moral law; depraved; profligate; wicked.Contrary to moral principles or to rectitude; perverse; pernicious; evil; bad.Impure; foul; vitiated: as, vicious humors.Faulty; incorrect; not pure; corrupt: as, a vicious style.Not well broken or trained; given to objectionable tricks: said of an animal.Characterized by severity; virulent; malignant; spiteful: as, a vicious attack.Synonyms and Wicked, Depraved, etc. (see criminal), unprincipled, licentious, profligate.Refractory, ugly.