Word: vicious
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...Forum acted improperly in asking two non-experts to debate a genetic theory with socially vicious overtones; it continued to act improperly when it cancelled the discussion...
Much has been made of fan behavior. I have no quarrel with fans. New York fans are vicious and unruly--everybody knows that. I just think it's because they're relative newcomers to winning on a large scale...
Both the Arabs and the Israelis have lived a history of oppression--the Arabs through the brutalizing effects of European colonialism; the Israelis, through centuries of vicious bigotry which culminated in Nazi genocide. The history of each group forged in its members a special pride along with a fragile sensitivity against being trespassed upon...
...gasoline murder of Wagler on October 2 was a vicious, senseless act, but when police discovered Barba's body near the predominantly black Columbia Point housing project the following day, newspapers jumped the gun in assuming it was another "roving gang" slaying...
...summer, and recently the racial feeling in the racially mixed neighborhood of Dorchester grew so dangerous that authorities closed a public high school for two days. Yet nothing in the city's mood or texture remotely prepared Bostonians for what happened there last week: two of the most vicious, apparently racial, murders in memory...