maliciousadjective
uk/məˈlɪʃ.əs/us/məˈlɪʃ.əs/C2 intended to harm or upset other people:
malicious gossip
a malicious look in his eyes
He complained that he'd been receiving malicious phone calls.
He was charged with malicious wounding.
intended to cause damage to a computer system, or to steal private information from a computer system:
protection against malicious software/code
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
- acerbic
- acidly
- backbite
- backbiting
- backhanded
- barbaric
- bilious
- cruelty
- cutthroat
- fiendish
- hard-hearted
- have a heart of stone idiom
- insensible
- malign
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadism
- sadist
- savagery
- waspish
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maliciously
adverb uk/məˈlɪʃ.əs.li/us/məˈlɪʃ.əs.li/