Bellamy makes sport with the Devil,[288] and Lorenzo is vitious and calls his Father Bawdy Magistrate.
I must farther declare that we make not Vitious Persons Happy, but only as Heaven makes Sinners so.
How they hug a Vitious Character, and how profuse are they in their Liberalities to Lewdness?
The Pleasure is ill Descended, and likewise Vitious and ensnaring.
A Vitious Imagination may blot a great deal of Paper at this rate with ease enough: And 'tis possible Convenience may sometimes invite to the Expedient.
Who would be vitious when such Terrors hang over his Head?
Now those who are affected with a vitious satisfaction, will be haunted with the Idea, and spread the Infection.
I grant there are Instances of Favour to vitiousyoung People in those Authors, but to this I reply 1st.
Their Motion is effeminate, and their Gestures vitious and Significant: And thus they worship the Luxury of one Idoll, and the Lewdness of the other.
They dream away their time without friendship, without fondness, and are driven to rid themselves of the day, for which they have no use, by childish amusements, or vitious delights.
Mr. Thrale has, certainly, less exercise than when he followed the foxes; but he is very far from unwieldiness or inactivity, and further still from any vitious or dangerous excess.
Sometimes indeed one vitious purpose occasions the detection of another, and family disgrace is revealed to pave the way to a divorce, with a view to another marriage, and perhaps to another divorce.
Thus the stage, if it ever possessed, has lost its vitious allurements, as a bucket of water is lost in the ocean.
Every plaudit which a vitious play, or a bad actor receives is a blow to the public morals, and the public taste.
To offer at iniquities, which have so little foundations in thee, were to be vitious up hill, and strain for thy condemnation.
And therefore so many, who are sinistrous unto Good Actions, are Ambi-dexterous unto bad; and Vulcans in virtuous paths, Achilleses in vitious motions.
Even in this life Regeneration may imitate Resurrection, our black and vitious tinctures may wear off, and goodness cloath us with candour.
It is natural that ill Men should be suspicious, and Alexandrinus, besides that Jealousie, had Proofs of the vitious Disposition of his Son Renatus, for that was his Name.
He laboured to shun all hurtful and vitious things, and therefore carefully abstained from making or confiding in promises.
You are yet Like virgin parchment, capable of any Inscription, vitiousor honourable.
Not the miserable or the vitiouslevities of music, which serve but to unman the soul, to wake the dormant sensualities of the heart, and far from lifting the spirit to the skies, but sink it to the centre.
I never heard our King was Effeminate: to be a little Uxorious personally, is a vertuous vice in Oeconomicks; but Royally, a vitious vertue in Politicks.
No Prince exceeds in Soveraignty, but his Subjects will exceed as farre in some vitious Liberty, to abate their griefe; or some pernicious mutiny, to abate their Prince.
But his supreme pleasure is to tax his adversary, so renowned for criticism, with vitious Latin.
Do is sometimes used superfluously, as I do love, I did love; simply for I love, or I loved; but this is considered as a vitious mode of speech.
A Parliament would have been welcom in any place; no place afforded such confluence of various and vitious humors, as that where it was unhappily convened.
But so it pleasith God to open up the mouth of Baalames awin asse, to cry out againest the vitious lyves of the clergie of that aige.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vitious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
