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malicious
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Malicious may refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malicious \Ma*li"cious\, a. [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See Malice .] Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. --Shak. Proceeding ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French malicios "showing ill will, spiteful, wicked" (Modern French malicieux ), from Latin malitiosus "wicked, malicious," from malitia "badness, ill will, spite," from malus "bad" (see mal- ). In legal use (early 14c., Anglo-French), ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite 2 spiteful and deliberately harmful
Usage examples of malicious.
I have spoken to Lebel about your pretty housekeeper: the worthy man had no malicious intent in sending her to you.
Such is often the reward of virtue here below, but the malicious persons who had tried to injure Donna Pelliccia by calumniating her to the king were the means of making her fortune.
I looked out of the corner of my eye at the malicious widow, who said nothing but seemed deep in thought.
And the two seemed more positive, less critical of Trenae, though they both still behaved with malicious intent.
Walking up, step-by-step, closer, closer, he gave Trenae a malicious, determined stare.
This woman was a widow, aged between thirty and forty years, of a jaundiced complexion, and a piercing and malicious aspect.
I sadly thought I should have to go away to be cured, to avoid the gossip of malicious wits.
I have confided in her, and she promised me that when I felt the pangs coming on she would give that malicious woman a sporific, and thus we should be freed from all fears of her.
I suffered a martyrdom, for these compliments seemed to be given with malicious intent.
She was an ugly woman, and though she was really very good-natured, she assumed the character of being malicious so as to obtain some consideration.
I can use my experience to help others avoid the efforts of the malicious information thieves of the world.
Slang for malicious software, a computer program, such as a virus, worm, or Trojan Horse, that performs damaging tasks.
But the developers of certain tools once used by the hacking community, which are now being freely distributed or sold as security-related software, are nonetheless treated as malicious code.
In addition, you must train employees against the danger of being deceived into downloading a program, or opening an email attachment that could install malicious software.
What these two students did as a malicious prank could just as easily have been done by a professional industrial spy, perhaps in the pay of a competitor, or perhaps in the pay of a foreign government.