Malicious \Ma*li"cious\, a. [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L.
malitiosus. See Malice.]
1. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or
enmity.
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I grant him bloody, . . .
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name. --Shak.
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2. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice;
as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.
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3. (Law) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives;
wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or
excuse; as, a malicious act.
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Malicious abandonment, the desertion of a wife or husband
without just cause. --Burrill.
Malicious prosecution or Malicious arrest (Law), a wanton
prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or
criminal proceeding, without probable cause. --Bouvier.
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Syn: Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious;
malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant;
rancorous; malign.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
malicious
adj 1: having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious
gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me
wince"- Rudyard Kipling [ant: unmalicious]
2: 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" [syn: malevolent] [ant: benevolent]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
poison-pen, poisonous, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant,
set against, sore, spiteful, venomous, vicious, virulent,
vitriolic, wicked
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
MALICIOUS. With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
malevolent
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