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Vicious circle   /vˈɪʃəs sˈərkəl/   Listen
Vicious circle

noun
1.
One trouble leads to another that aggravates the first.  Synonym: vicious cycle.
2.
An argument that assumes that which is to be proved.





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"Vicious circle" Quotes from Famous Books



... are diagrams, not symbols, and thence it is that Giotto seems nearer to the Renaissance than do his latest followers, not excepting even Orcagna. Painting, which had made the most prodigious strides from Giunta to Cimabue, and from Cimabue to Giotto, had got enclosed within a vicious circle, in which it moved for nearly a century neither backwards nor forwards: painters were satisfied with suggestion; and as long as they were satisfied, no ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various
... impossible to broach such a scheme without going at once into all the details of the chief cause of her sorrows. The consequence was that in the windings of his imagination the squire found himself perpetually turning in a vicious circle; but since the exercise concerned Mrs. Goddard and her welfare it was not uncongenial. He founded all his vague hopes upon one expression she had used. When in making his proposal he had spoken of her as being a widow, she had ...
— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford
... got the doll, I suppose," said Akulina, triumphantly completing the vicious circle in which she ...
— A Cigarette-Maker's Romance • F. Marion Crawford


Words linked to "Vicious circle" :   regeneration, positive feedback, specious argument


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