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Viciousness


VI'CIOUSNESS, noun

1. Addictedness to vice; corruptness of moral principles or practice; habitual violation of the moral law, or of moral duties; depravity in principles or in manners.

What makes a governor justly despised, is viciousness and ill morals.

2. Unruliness; refractoriness; as of a beast.