“He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.”

— 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

“Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof”

— 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:

“A murrain on you, Reverend Apse/I hope you get caught in a vicious moral lapse.”

— 1930, Ogden Nash, Lines to Be Mumbled at Ovington's: