| malicious | (adj) having the nature of or resulting from malice; ; - Rudyard Kipling, Ant. unmalicious, Example: malicious gossip; took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince |
| maliciously | (adv) with malice; in a malicious manner, Example: she answered maliciously |
| Malicious | a. [ Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See Malice. ] I grant him bloody, . . .
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| malicious mischief | n. (Law), Malicious and willful destructionof or injury to the property of others; -- it is an offense at common law. Wharton. |