malicious
malicious
Definition
ma·li·cious (mə lis̸h′əs)
adjective
having, showing, or caused by malice; spiteful; intentionally mischievous or harmful
Etymology: ME < OFr malicios < L malitiosus < malitia: see malice
ma·li′·ciously adverb
ma·li′·cious·ness noun
malicious
Synonyms
malicious
Usage Examples
Used with adjective complement
- include: These include malicious Spyware, nuisance adware, phishing attacks and cookies.
- get: Or did you know that and decided to get malicious because you were just made of fool of?
Modifies a noun
- falsehood: In this respect, actions for malicious falsehood were on the rise.
- intent: Less malicious intent will more likely result in posts being moderated.
- hacker: In plain English - it keeps out any malicious hackers.
- gossip: In the first case, Smith hears some malicious gossip about the past career of Jones.
- spyware: Privacy and Security Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls.
- code: Steps You Can Take The malicious code has to get into your PC somehow.
Modifying Another Word
- potentially: Most systems have around 80 or 90 pieces of potentially malicious code on them within a short time of connecting up to the internet.
- deliberately: But it is more difficult when someone is being deliberately malicious toward us or our family.
- possibly: Rootkits, which make system changes to hide another piece of possibly malicious software, are less widespread, with removals from 780,000 PCs.
- particularly: Or you can sneak up behind unsuspecting mercenary types and knife them in the spine, if you're a particularly malicious individual.
- even: He did not criticize, but was one-sided, exaggerated, even malicious; he gave nothing to which the Party could usefully turn.
- often: The virus writers used to hide viruses here ( often malicious ones ).
Preposition: in
malicious Quotes
Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
A most horrid malicious bloody flame It made me weep to see it.
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