viciously

comparative more viciously · superlative most viciously · alternative vitiously

1. In a vicious manner; ferociously or maliciously.

   The sky was gray and dead. Great! he thought. Another day stuck in this boarded-up rat hole! He slammed the door viciously, then winced, groaning, at the brain-stabbing noise.

   1999, Leonard Wolf, Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction, page 183

   3 more examples

   "I'll give him a dressing down, see if I don't." Mrs. Mudge's eyes snapped viciously, and she clutched the relics of the broom with a degree of energy which rendered it uncertain what sort of a dressing down she intended for her husband.

   1865, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul Prescott's Charge

   […]he said it again, viciously, “this sand. This goddam sand. Its like a goddam fuckin desert.” / “Its all in the game,” Warden said. “The whole thing was all in the cards. It wasnt your fault. Forget it.”

   1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 742

   The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

   2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in The AV Club