malicious

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But sock-puppeting is actually kind of malicious, and if it keeps happening, I will bring down the hammer.

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  1. adjective Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.

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  • The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, was found after malware -- malicious software -- was discovered on workstations that appeared to come from Russia, China and "other countries," the report said. —  ChannelWeb Complete Feed
  • For a brief period last weekend, the entire Web was tagged as malicious -- at least, according to Google. —  InfoWorld RSS Feed
  • "Whilst we believe his actions were misguided rather than malicious, they were clearly inappropriate," it said. —  Reuters: Top News
  • "Whilst we believe his actions were misguided rather than malicious, they were clearly inappropriate and we would condemn any such actions by any police officer as unacceptable." —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • To wit '… While it is sometimes said that the person making the libelous statement must have been intentional and malicious, actually it need only be obvious that the statement would do harm and is untrue ….'. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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wicked ·  mischievous ·  malignant ·  foolish ·  spiteful ·  vindictive ·  cynical ·  insolent ·  unjust ·  perverse ·  vile ·  nasty
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  1. from Middle English malicious, from Old French malicios, French malicieux = Spanish Portuguese malicioso = Italian malizioso, from Latin malitiosus, full of malice, wicked, malicious, from malitia, badness, malice: see malice.
 

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