adjective
definition
Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
definition
Spiteful and deliberately harmful
example
He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
Examples of malicious in a Sentence
They are malicious gossip, greed of money, giving security, nocturnal robbery, murder, unchastity.
He took a sort of malicious pleasure in irritating the monks.
One of the principal grounds for an absolute divorce is malicious desertion.
He was plain malicious!
This led to the circulation of malicious stories to the effect that Great Britain was not doing her share, and that she was preserving her soldiers at the expense of those furnished from overseas.
It can be harsh and may seem malicious at times.
Fascists can counter the malicious propaganda to destroy friendly relations with Germany by using this fact.
Viruses are malicious little computer programs.
There's no evidence of malicious intent here, it's all assumed.
Having brought malicious charges in which his evidence was rejected, he narrowly escaped prosecution for perjury.
All sorts of whispers have been circulated by idle or malicious gossip about Burke's first manhood.
Some say enterprises may soon need a special firewall to thwart the malicious hackers, spoofers and...
Individuals who make malicious or vexatious allegations may be liable to disciplinary action.
What's more, there are countless websites that say that they offer free cell phone games, only to hit your computer with malicious viruses and spyware.
There's a chance the popup message isn't a legit system query at all, but rather works like a cleverly disguised ad that interprets any click as approval to install something malicious on your system.
Downloading a program like this from a malicious website can result in your computer receiving a virus.
It can be too easy to infect your program with malicious programs.
The Fox News hack was particularly malicious.
He offered no explanation for his actions, but denied any malicious intent.
Such systems could be targeted through unauthorized intrusions, DDoS attacks, worms, Trojan horse programs, or malicious insiders.
Such gesture, directed towards an inoffensive person, became an insult, and the word sycophant might imply one who insulted another by bringing a frivolous or malicious accusation against him.
Using a secure site when paying your bills online will help ensure that prying and potentially malicious eyes stay far away from your financial data.
You probably know about some of the malicious attacks that occur or the techniques used to pilfer personal data or gather information about your computer.
You have to be extra careful when browsing these kinds of websites, though, as they may contain viruses, spyware, and other malicious content.
Like other e-mail address services, Yahoo mail e-mail addresses are vulnerable to hacking attacks from malicious users.
Behavior blockers have another inherent disadvantage; they are unable to combat conceptually new malicious programs.
Unwise admirers and malicious opponents exaggerated the theological bearings of his system in this detail; and the efforts of the Jesuits succeeded in getting the works of Descartes, in November 1663, placed upon the index of prohibited books,- donec corrigantur.
The statements that he had been a slave and was never baptized appear to be malicious inventions of his theological opponents.
This fearful saying unquestionably expressed a frequent mood of Frederick's; and he sometimes acted with great harshness, and seemed to take a malicious pleasure in tormenting his acquaintances.
Divorce is granted to either spouse for either adultery or malicious desertion, the distinctions established by the English law between husband and wife in respect of divorce being disregarded.
With his pink straw and two yellow chicken hands, he hatches ill-thought out schemes and malicious attempts to attack his fellow Aqua Teen, Meatwad.
Many schools across the United States now prevent students from accessing MySpace while on campus, because they feel the site leads to malicious gossiping.
Enjoy the humorous and malicious remarks of the Bard and the Narrator.
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Charles made the malicious remark that nothing was safe from Don John - not even vermin.
Charles had bought along his hard redheaded wife Norma, and she was busy swapping malicious gossip with Emily.
Or did you know that and decided to get malicious because you were just made of fool of?
They were held for several hours inside the base and charged with malicious mischief.
How can such a program be " an exact copy " while having also been modified " with a malicious payload "?
He had a penchant for painting half- length figures of malicious sexually predatory women.
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The Lindos have taken out a civil case, charging the police with malicious prosecution, assault and false imprisonment.
It is a witty, malicious satire of the English literary world.
And if we were to combine those he wants to injure people by malicious slander.
Protect your business from malicious code from websites and in emails, reduce unwanted spam and prevent users from accessing inappropriate websites.
But he survived these troubles - it is a malicious invention that he recanted during the persecution - and lived a few years longer in active intercourse with his friends.
In his Life of Sir Henry Wotton Izaac Walton, calling him Jasper Scioppius, refers to Schoppe as "a man of a restless spirit and a malicious pen."
While in India the conception of the asura had veered more and more towards the dreadful and the dreaded, Zoroaster elevated it again - at the cost, indeed, of the daivas (daevas), whom he degraded to the rank of malicious powers and devils.
The one has for its subject Barsauma and the other Nestorian leaders in Persia, and gives a highly malicious account of their proceedings.
With a view of safeguarding themselves from breakdowns caused by the inequality of feeding, or by the action of malicious persons introducing foreign substances, such as crowbars, bolts, &c., among the canes, and so into the mills, many planters have adopted socalled hydraulic attachments, applied either to the megass roll or the top roll bearings.