malicious
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5.8
- adjective
- /məˈlɪʃəs/
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malintencionado
- Not all child abuse is deliberate and malicious, but some of it is.
- malicious intent
- malicious attack
- malicious prosecution
So you wouldn't suspect any malicious intent with just this comment.
- So you wouldn't suspect any malicious intent with just this comment.
- Not every man is trying to move forward with malicious intent.
- There were two or three claims in now you know, libel and malicious falsehoods, which I won.
- And he said subtle as the Lord, but malicious he is not.
- So I guess that's not like only for good, but it wouldn't be for malicious behaviour.
- Was it a malicious private citizen?
- Like, it wasn't, it wasn't anything that was meant to be malicious at first.
- Now, I'm not saying every man who's looking for help has a very malicious intent, so to speak.
- Then we have seen it in the past, it's a malicious app.
- Envy and malicious joy are merely theoretical right.
Examples
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Today, the structure of the Internet permits malicious activity to flourish and the perpetrators to remain anonymous.
Academic text (2006) -
His mouth moved very slowly into the most malicious smile I have ever seen.
Fiction book (1996) -
Not every man is trying to move forward with malicious intent.
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It's not my intention to present a malicious portrait of anyone.
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Now we plainly see you are malicious!
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And it does catch up and it's horrible because you don't realise how malicious people can be online.
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Dumont narrowed his green eyes and took malicious pleasure in singing the four notes.
Fiction book (1992) -
The powder was believed to produce an antidote that warded off malicious attacks from enemies.
Academic text (1999) -
The malicious rumors spread quickly, causing distress to many in the community.
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Her malicious actions were meant to hurt her rival in the competition.
Synonyms
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1.2
Being very bad and morally wrong, often causing harm to others
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2.2
Unkind and cruel toward other people
222
5.2
Deliberately cruel and likely to hurt someone
47
8.8
Very bad and illegal, done to harm people
26
6.0
Full of strong hate and meant to hurt people's feelings
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5.1
Wanting to hurt or upset someone on purpose
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8.0
Wanting to harm others
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8.4
A person who is very cruel and cowardly, often betraying others secretly
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7.3
Very bad and cruel, often hurting other people
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6.3
Showing strong hate and wanting to hurt someone
5
4.1
Something that tries to cause harm or trouble
4
7.6
A harmful, evil force that causes people or things to suffer
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7.5
Wanting to hurt people or cause harm
Wanting to hurt or upset other people
Antonyms
Compounds
How Malicious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Malicious comes from an old root mal- meaning 'bad', the same idea you see in the word malice. So, to be malicious is to want to cause 'harm' or trouble to someone, which explains its modern meaning.