And when he successfully carries off a vicious practical joke on the police, one feels a reluctant twinge of approval.

Why, what do they talk about when they aren't making their vicious jokes?

Everyone on Claremont Street knows the gaunt old woman, the object of innocent fun and occasionally vicious jokes.

Lawyers are still vilifiable, he said, and old, vicious ethnic jokes become speakable when "lawyer" is the operative word.

She smiled, and made a joke of it, a vicious joke, but she couldn't make her expression match the humor.

Laughter reeks of mockery, and we decry happiness as a vicious joke.

Both the title and the photograph seemed vicious jokes.

Why would a thief waste something so valuable on a vicious practical joke?

For an instant, he really did look like someone admiring a brilliant, vicious, bloody practical joke at his own expense.

These things turn up on youtube, destroying lives by making someone the eternal butt of a vicious joke.