Harrowing and Vicious

Harrowing

Harrowing adjective - Hard to accept or bear especially emotionally.

Vicious and harrowing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vicious" instead an adjective "Harrowing".

Nearby Words: harrow, harrowed

Vicious

Vicious adjective - Extreme in degree, power, or effect.

Harrowing and vicious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Harrowing" instead an adjective "Vicious".

Nearby Word: viciously

Both words in one sentence

  • A Taste of the Lash Howard's Conan the Barbarian story, "The Black Stranger," has a harrowing scene in which Valenso, a vicious pirate, has his niece Belesa's protegee, a young girl by the name of Tina, subjected to this because he thinks she was lying about the coming of the title Black Man.
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