vitiously

I do not stick up for any actions of terror, but I will fight vitiously for any person that is being bullied, wrongfully accused, and standing their rightful grounds.

Think Progress » Gonzales: ‘There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution’ 2007

Perhaps, like some other foolish young men, he rather talked than lived vitiously, in an age when he that would be thought a wit was afraid to say his prayers; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life, was surely condemned and reformed by his better judgment.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746