Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Indulging in or feeling malice; harboring ill-will, enmity, or hostility; actively malevolent; malignant in heart: often used in a lighter sense, implying mischievousness with some ill-will.
- Proceeding from extreme hatred or ill-will; dictated by malice: as, a malicious report.
- The committing of physical injury to personal property of another; injury to property, from wantonness or malice, as distinguished from theft. Any malicious or mischievous physical injury to the rights of another, or of the public in general.
F. A. Wharton. - An action brought by the sufferer to recover damages from the person who set on foot such a prosecution.
- Synonyms Evil-minded, ill-disposed, spiteful, resentful. See animosity.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
- adj. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice
- adj. (Law) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice
Etymologies
- From Latin malitiosus, from malitia ("malice"), from malus ("bad"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“As questions from investors and analysts about Jefferies's financial strength swirled in November, the firm issued a letter to investors and customers in an attempt to defend the company from what it called "malicious lies.”
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“CHETRY: Yes, but according to this report, and I mean, they say there were more than 54,000, what they call malicious acts against the Defense Department alone.”
“National police spokeswoman Director Sally de Beer said the rumours related to what she labelled malicious allegations of corruption against board members.”
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“But he said Google was aware of the issue and was already working on changes, which will be adopted in coming days, to prevent what he called "malicious or incorrect labeling.”
“Black then filed a $5-million lawsuit for what he called "malicious, reckless and abusive efforts" to stop the project.”
“Peter Hughes, and Social Development Minister Paula Bennett - over what he calls a malicious prosecution.”
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“About 20 Sestak supporters, most of them veterans, showed up outside the rally to denounce what they called a malicious attack ad by Specter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘malicious’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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connive, incessant, premeditated, malice, malicious, spite, vindictive, vindicate, vengeance, obstinately, assiduous, attentive and 14 more...
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'icious!
words common and fictitious ending in -icious and -itious
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People are Scum
words that one may enjoy using to describe other people or their actions
degenerate, reprobate, scapegrace, capricious, sycophant, arbitrary, infernal, abominable, iniquitous, nefarious, philistine, sadistic and 39 more...
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mal-
unpleasantly; badly; improperly; not
malfunction, malodorous, maladroit, malpractice, malaprop, malapropos, malnourished, malnourishment, malcontent, malevolence, malicious, malefaction
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This Boy's Life list 2
treacly, sepulchral, unutterable, malicious, vigilance, Aryan, lackey, plausible, emaciated, cavernous, perspicacity, scabrous and 13 more...
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I am : evil
Adjectives that are very, very bad.
evil, wicked, diabolical, nasty, demonic, corrupt, depraved, nefarious, sinister, villainous, vile, reprobate and 18 more...
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Harmful
quick, hurtful, ruinous, noxious, destructive, deadly, mischievous, deleterious, baneful, injurious, baleful, malicious and 24 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
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miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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Neww
specious, disdainfully, vehemently, in lieu of, dismissive, perpetual, preposterous, impasse, fathom, conversely, repugnant, clogged and 142 more...
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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