Definition of malicious

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Malicious (a.) Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief..

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Calumny :: Calumny (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction..
Lampoon :: Lampoon (n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress..
Slander :: Slander (n.) Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation..
Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..
Vexation :: Vexation (n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit..
Curst :: Curst (a.) Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.
Rancorous :: Rancorous (a.) Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent..
Serpent :: Serpent (n.) Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person..
Revengeful :: Revengeful (a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge..
Incendiary :: Incendiary (a.) Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime..
Despiteous :: Despiteous (a.) Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.
Libel :: Libel (n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law..
Currish :: Currish (a.) Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal..
Talebearer :: Talebearer (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief..
Malicious :: Malicious (a.) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act..
Slander :: Slander (n.) A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another..
Libel :: Libel (n.) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.
Felon :: Felon (a.) Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Despiteful :: Despiteful (a.) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.
Cantankerous :: Cantankerous (a.) Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.
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