malicious

[ muh-lish-uhs ]

/ məˈlɪʃ əs /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR malicious ON THESAURUS.COM

adjective

full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.

Law. vicious, wanton, or mischievous in motivation or purpose.

Origin of malicious

1175–1225; Middle English malicius<Old French <Latin malitiōsus.See malice, -ous

OTHER WORDS FROM malicious

ma·li·cious·ly, adverbma·li·cious·ness, nounnon·ma·li·cious, adjectivenon·ma·li·cious·ly, adverb

non·ma·li·cious·ness, nounsem·i·ma·li·cious, adjectivesem·i·ma·li·cious·ly, adverbsem·i·ma·li·cious·ness, nounun·ma·li·cious, adjectiveun·ma·li·cious·ly, adverb

Words nearby malicious

Malibu board, malic, malic acid, malice, malice aforethought, malicious, malicious mischief, Mali empire, malign, malignancy, malignant

Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Example sentences from the Web for malicious

For the record, disinformation purposely misleads people, while misinformation is simply inaccurate, but without malicious intent.
Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality to the Test|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|September 4, 2020|Singularity Hub
With that, the researchers were able to achieve a cross-site scripting exploit that injected a malicious payload directly into the internals of the browser built into Jabber.
A single text is all it took to unleash code-execution worm in Cisco Jabber|Dan Goodin|September 4, 2020|Ars Technica
A security vulnerability in Android could have allowed malicious apps to siphon off sensitive data from other apps on the same device.
Android security bug let malicious apps siphon off private user data|Zack Whittaker|August 28, 2020|TechCrunch
Also, Bing does “not want to index ” spammy content or pages that have malicious activities on them, he said.
Bing considers page quality before indexing|Barry Schwartz|August 26, 2020|Search Engine Land

Each call that was picked up, they discovered, sent malicious code through WhatsApp’s infrastructure and caused the recipient’s phone to download spyware from servers owned by NSO.
Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
"Malicious destruction of property" could probably be proved without Tiger's testimony.
Was Tiger a Victim?|Wendy Murphy|November 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Malicious Fate, too, they felt, would even crown with the grand prix the number they would have chosen.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes|Israel Zangwill
Malicious tongues have whispered that he has painted her picture, that he has good-humouredly let her reap the honour of his toil.
August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt|L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
“These two were name-brothers, and loved as though they were brothers by blood,” said Malicious Gossip.
White Shadows in the South Seas|Frederick O'Brien
Malicious reports were also spread against them, which must have been almost harder to bear.
A Book of Quaker Saints|Lucy Violet Hodgkin
Malicious fate does oft devise To beat the brave, and fool the wise.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)|Theophilus Cibber

British Dictionary definitions for malicious

malicious

/ (məˈlɪʃəs) /

adjective

characterized by malice

motivated by wrongful, vicious, or mischievous purposes

Derived forms of malicious

maliciously, adverbmaliciousness, noun

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

单词	malicious
释义	malicious [ muh-lish-uhs ] / məˈlɪʃ əs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR malicious ON THESAURUS.COM adjective full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip. Law. vicious, wanton, or mischievous in motivation or purpose. Origin of malicious 1175–1225; Middle English malicius<Old French <Latin malitiōsus.See malice, -ous OTHER WORDS FROM malicious ma·li·cious·ly, adverbma·li·cious·ness, nounnon·ma·li·cious, adjectivenon·ma·li·cious·ly, adverb non·ma·li·cious·ness, nounsem·i·ma·li·cious, adjectivesem·i·ma·li·cious·ly, adverbsem·i·ma·li·cious·ness, nounun·ma·li·cious, adjectiveun·ma·li·cious·ly, adverb Words nearby malicious Malibu board, malic, malic acid, malice, malice aforethought, malicious, malicious mischief, Mali empire, malign, malignancy, malignant Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for malicious For the record, disinformation purposely misleads people, while misinformation is simply inaccurate, but without malicious intent. Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality to the Test\|Vanessa Bates Ramirez\|September 4, 2020\|Singularity Hub With that, the researchers were able to achieve a cross-site scripting exploit that injected a malicious payload directly into the internals of the browser built into Jabber. A single text is all it took to unleash code-execution worm in Cisco Jabber\|Dan Goodin\|September 4, 2020\|Ars Technica A security vulnerability in Android could have allowed malicious apps to siphon off sensitive data from other apps on the same device. Android security bug let malicious apps siphon off private user data\|Zack Whittaker\|August 28, 2020\|TechCrunch Also, Bing does “not want to index ” spammy content or pages that have malicious activities on them, he said. Bing considers page quality before indexing\|Barry Schwartz\|August 26, 2020\|Search Engine Land Each call that was picked up, they discovered, sent malicious code through WhatsApp’s infrastructure and caused the recipient’s phone to download spyware from servers owned by NSO. Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant\|Tate Ryan-Mosley\|August 19, 2020\|MIT Technology Review "Malicious destruction of property" could probably be proved without Tiger's testimony. Was Tiger a Victim?\|Wendy Murphy\|November 30, 2009\|DAILY BEAST Malicious Fate, too, they felt, would even crown with the grand prix the number they would have chosen. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes\|Israel Zangwill Malicious tongues have whispered that he has painted her picture, that he has good-humouredly let her reap the honour of his toil. August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt\|L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby “These two were name-brothers, and loved as though they were brothers by blood,” said Malicious Gossip. White Shadows in the South Seas\|Frederick O'Brien Malicious reports were also spread against them, which must have been almost harder to bear. A Book of Quaker Saints\|Lucy Violet Hodgkin Malicious fate does oft devise To beat the brave, and fool the wise. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)\|Theophilus Cibber British Dictionary definitions for malicious malicious / (məˈlɪʃəs) / adjective characterized by malice motivated by wrongful, vicious, or mischievous purposes Derived forms of malicious maliciously, adverbmaliciousness, noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to malicious vengeful, petty, spiteful, vicious, pernicious, mischievous, malignant, virulent, nasty, wicked, venomous, malevolent, awful, baleful, beastly, bitter, catty, deleterious, detrimental, envious
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malicious

adjective

Origin of malicious

OTHER WORDS FROM malicious

Words nearby malicious

Example sentences from the Web for malicious

British Dictionary definitions for malicious

adjective

Derived forms of malicious

Words related to malicious