"vicious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Intellectuals began writing "vicious satire and stinging commentary."
- As the speculative comments of the crewmen turned goading, he met them, word for word, in a striking, vicious satire that forced their grudging respect.
- Miles imagined the potential for vicious political satire, and winced.
- As a conservative, pro-Habsburg Czech, Dub is the subject of some of Hašek's most vicious satire.
- For all its hometown rooters, there are also plenty of critics of the company here, and Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, is a regular target of vicious local satire.
- The later novel Joko's Anniversary (1969), another fable about loss of identity, is a vicious satire on social conformity.
- True, in 1971, Roth wrote a vicious satire of Richard Nixon in "Our Gang," but by 1997, with his novel "American Pastoral," he had turned harshly against the 1960's.
- In a downward spiral, Casanova was expelled again from Venice in 1783, after writing a vicious satire poking fun at Venetian nobility.
- The Romantic poet Robert Southey accused him of "the want of all feeling in stripping his dead wife naked" and vicious satires such as The Unsex'd Females were published.
- Many segments were vicious satires of television commercials; a typical "word from our sponsor" would have the announcer extolling the virtues of the item being advertised, accompanied by darkly humorous clips.
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