maliciouslyadv.

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 53 Ant ȝif hit may be proued þat suuche plaintes maliciousliche weren imoeuede aȝen hoem, [etc.].

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 80 (MED) If any broyer or sistere maliciouseliche or dispisantliche lie on his broyer or on his sister..schal payen..alf a pownd waxche.

c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) v. 200 Though that thou with wordes hony swete Mal [ic] iously vpon her dethe compasse, thay shall scape.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lv. 3 They are mynded to do me some myschefe, so maliciously are they set agaynst me.

1630 M. Dalton Countrey Justice (rev. ed.) Lxxv. 190 Taunts, or songs, malitiously repeated or sung.

1710 Tatler No. 235. ⁋2 This kind Parent..is maliciously thankful that none of her Girls are like any of her Neighbours.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 111 ‘Well, Nickleby,’ said Squeers, eyeing him maliciously. ‘You think he has run away?’.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 381 Wright maliciously told the counsel for the defence that they had only themselves to thank.

1952 G. Vidal Judgm. of Paris iii. 81 Mr. Norman chuckled maliciously.

1987 C. Tomalin Katherine Mansfield vii. 86 The kindly Bowden came to visit her once or twice, but Katherine maliciously sent him off with Ida to admire the local church.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Dan. xiii. 43 These thingus whiche these maliciously maken to gydre aȝeinus me.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 55 We denouncyn hem alle acursed..þat..malycyously depriuen of here ryght..holy cherche.

?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxxvii. f. 23 (MED) Som men he temptiþ bi gostli synnes maliciousli, as bi mistrowenge of þe feiþ.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 15 It hadde been much better for them, neuer..to haue knowen the waie of truthe, then..so rashely and maliciously to haue forsaken it.

1421 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. xvii John Canon..malycyouslych ymagenyd him to slee.

1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 11 Dyvers evyll dysposed personnes..maliciously at dyverse and sondry tymes hathe cutte cast downe and broken up dyvers parties of the Dyke.

1670–1 Act 22 & 23 Chas. II c. 7 §1 Where..any person..shall in the night time malitiously unlawfully and willingly burne..any Ricks [etc.].

1716 W. Hawkins Pleas Crown i. 106 He may be indicted as having maliciously burned the House of B.

1761 I. Fletcher Diary 5 Aug. (1994) 107 John Bragg, attorney, indicted for perjury, said malitiously.

1889 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 23 612 ‘Maliciously’..implies an intention to do an act which is wrongful, to the detriment of another.

1973 J. D. Heydon Econ. Torts IV. 66 Injurious falsehood. This tort is committed where the defendant maliciously publishes to a third party written or oral falsehoods about the plaintiff in his trade which are calculated to produce and do produce actual damage.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 26695 (MED) They comen ful malycyously vppon kyng Arthewur, and egerly.

?1526 Complaynt Mary Magdaleyne in Chaucer's Bk. Fame (Pynson) sig. e.vi/1 They hym assayled so malyciously With their scourges and strokes beestyall.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 234 Ewerie on strak maliciouslie at wther [in a joust].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 323 A lingring Dram, that should not worke Maliciously, like Poyson. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 181 I will be trebble-sinewed, hearted, breath'd, And fight maliciously . View more context for this quotation

1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 100 Unless the Wind blows maliciously.