malicious

comparative more malicious · superlative most malicious · alternative malitious

1. Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.

   He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

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   And novv, if you are a Malitious Reader, I expect you ſhould return upon me, that I affect to be thought more Impartial than I am.

   1681, [John Dryden], “To the Reader”, in Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], →OCLC

   They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.

   1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169

   Synonyms: evil, maleficent, malevolent, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed