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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Malicious \Ma*li"cious\, adjective [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See {Malice}.]
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 prosecution} or {Malicious 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}, adverb -- {Ma*li"cious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
malicious
adjective
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
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