Malicious

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Ma*li"cious*ly}, adv. --
          {Ma*li"cious*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MALICIOUS. With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.