But there's a difference between a tough campaign and a vicious campaign.

They might well remember, as Richard will point out, her vicious campaign to keep the crown for her husband and son.

That paper, he said, "wages rather vicious campaigns against candidates, usually when they have someone they're really for.

Each camp has accused the other of mounting a misleading and vicious campaign.

"What has up to now been a vicious campaign turned, if possible, even more venomous today," a newscaster for Channel 11 here said this weekend.

The Times must stop this vicious campaign against our most festive family bird.

She also noted, "What a vicious campaign was carried on against him.

Lillian ran a particularly vicious campaign, and it rankled a lot of people.

How else to explain why a simple contract dispute turned into a vicious campaign to ruin a small company and take its prize possession?

Never had Gideon witnessed a more vicious national campaign.