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Synonyms for malicious
məˈlɪʃ əsma·li·cious

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  1. maliciousadjective

    Synonyms:
    evil, malevolent

  2. maliciousadjective

    Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite

    Synonyms:
    malevolent, evil

  3. maliciousadjective

    Deliberately harmful; spiteful

    He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

    Synonyms:
    malevolent, evil

Princeton's WordNet3.8 / 6 votes

  1. maliciousadjective

    having the nature of or resulting from malice

    "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

    Antonyms:
    unmalicious

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. maliciousadjective

    Synonyms:
    malevolent, malignant, spiteful, ill-disposed, ill-natured

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. maliciousadjective

    Synonyms:
    hateful, malevolent, rancorous, malignant

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How to use malicious in a sentence?

  1. Neal Ziring:

    This is all about imposing cost on these malicious actors.

  2. William Evanina:

    The harm can range from negligence, such as failing to secure data or clicking on a spear-phishing link, to malicious activities like theft, sabotage, espionage, unauthorized disclosure of classified information or even violence.

  3. Momo Inc:

    Mr. Tang has informed us that he believes the allegations are malicious and intends to vigorously defend himself against them.

  4. Ekram Ahmed:

    Anytime source code gets leaked it's not good, hackers can comb through the code, identify deeper flaws for exploit, and sell that previous code on the dark web to malicious threat actors.

  5. Shanon Terry:

    I regret the mistake that was made, and it was just that - an unintended mistake. The image posted by me on a political Facebook page was not done with any malicious or harmful intent. Once made aware of the negative portion of the picture I immediately replaced it and followed up with an apology/explanation the next day, my error was rushing to post a thank you note to the outgoing chairperson, in doing so I did not properly review a cut and paste image used in that post from an internet search for a' GOP elephant'. I do not support or agree with any hate group agenda and certainly would not try to further their cause.


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