About The Word Malicious
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Malicious Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Malicious?
[adj] wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"
[adj] having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling Synonyms | Synonyms for Malicious: beady-eyed | bitchy | cattish | catty | despiteful | leering | malevolent | poisonous | spiteful | venomed | venomous | vicious | vindictive | vixenish Related Terms | Find terms related to Malicious: acrid | antagonistic | antipathetic | baleful | baneful | belligerent | bitchy | bitter | catty | caustic | clashing | colliding | conflicting | cussed | deleterious | despiteful | detrimental | envious | evil | full of hate | green | green-eyed | harmful | hateful | hostile | iniquitous | invidious | jealous | malefic | maleficent | malevolent | malign | malignant | mean | nasty | noxious | ornery | pernicious | petty | poisonous | poison-pen | quarrelsome | rancorous | repugnant | set against | sore | spiteful | venomous | vicious | virulent | vitriolic | wicked See Also | hateful | maleficent | malign Malicious In Webster's Dictionary \Ma*li"cious\, a. [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L.
malitiosus. See {Malice}.]
1. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or
enmity.
I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious,
smacking of every sin That has a name. --Shak.
2. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice;
as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.
3. (Law)With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives;
wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or
excuse; as, a malicious act.
{Malicious abandonment}, the desertion of a wife or husband
without just cause. --Burrill.
{Malicious mischief} (Law), malicious injury to the property
of another; -- an offense at common law. --Wharton.
{Malicious prosecution} or {arrest} (Law), a wanton
prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or
criminal proceeding, without probable cause. --Bouvier.
Syn: Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious;
malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant;
rancorous; malign. -- {Ma*li"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Ma*li"cious*ness}, n.
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