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- Dictionarymalicious/məˈlɪʃəs/
adjective
- 1. characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm: "he was found guilty of malicious damage"
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Malicious means intended to harm or upset other people, or to cause damage to a computer system. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, antonyms, and usage in different contexts.
Malicious means having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone, often out of spite or envy. Learn the synonyms, examples, word history, and legal implications of malicious from Merriam-Webster.
Malicious means intended to harm or upset other people, or to cause damage to a computer system. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, antonyms, and usage in different contexts.
Malicious means intended to harm people or their reputation, or cause them embarrassment and upset. Learn the synonyms, pronunciation, collocations, and usage of malicious in British and American English.
Malicious definition: full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful. See examples of MALICIOUS used in a sentence.
Someone who is malicious enjoys hurting or embarrassing others. If you're writing a book about good and evil, you'll want to come up with a truly malicious character to do all the bad stuff. Malicious is the adjective based on the noun malice, which means the desire to harm others.
Malicious means having or showing a desire to harm somebody or hurt their feelings, caused by a feeling of hate. It can also describe software or code that is intended to damage computers or data files.
