Thesaurus: malicious

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1. a. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
2. a. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.
3. a. With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act.
4. adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice
5. 1. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. Shak. 2. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief. 3. (Law) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act. Malicious abandonment, the desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. Burrill. -- Malicious mischief (Law), malicious injury to the property of another; -- an offense at common law. Wharton. -- Malicious prosecution or arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. Bouvier. Syn. -- Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious; malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous; malign. -- Ma*li"cious*ly, adv. -- Ma*li"cious*ness, n.
6. With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful anddone intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act.Malicious abandonment, the desertion of a wife or husband withoutjust cause. Burrill.-- Malicious mischief (Law), malicious injury to the property ofanother; -- an offense at common law. Wharton.-- Malicious prosecution or arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution orarrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, withoutprobable cause. Bouvier.
7. j:100 a. having the nature of or resulting from malice