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Synonyms for malicious
məˈlɪʃ əsma·li·cious
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Wiktionary
maliciousadjective
Synonyms:
evil, malevolentmaliciousadjective
Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
Synonyms:
malevolent, evilmaliciousadjective
Deliberately harmful; spiteful
He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
Synonyms:
malevolent, evil
Princeton's WordNet
maliciousadjective
having the nature of or resulting from malice
"malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
Antonyms:
unmalicious
Dictionary of English Synonymes
maliciousadjective
Synonyms:
malevolent, malignant, spiteful, ill-disposed, ill-natured
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
maliciousadjective
Synonyms:
hateful, malevolent, rancorous, malignant
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "malicious":
malevolent, malevolence, malignant, ill-intentioned, vicious, intentional, mischievous, evil, wicked, untrusted, harmful, sleepless, pernicious
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#3009 | evil | |
#8459 | wicked | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#13639 | malicious | |
#15592 | malignant | |
#15992 | vicious | |
#16556 | intentional | |
#33301 | sleepless | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#48310 | malevolent | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#55861 | untrusted | |
#110925 | malevolence |
How to use malicious in a sentence?
I had five birth children and I now consider myself a father of three, i no longer recognize Oliver and Kate as my own. I would ask them to stop using the Hudson name. They are no longer a part of my life. Oliver’s Instagram post was a malicious, vicious, premeditated attack.
She is not holding the gun in a malicious manner, she is not pointing it anywhere. It’s to me, in my opinion, a nice photograph of a young lady in the Adirondack region that enjoys hunting.
Such malicious cyber activity will continue and probably accelerate until we establish and demonstrate the capability to deter malicious state-sponsored cyber activity.
I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way, malicious leaks of this nature are unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic and can actually lead to a damage to that relationship which can therefore affect our wider security interest.
The federal government does not have the legal authorities it needs to protect the American public from these kinds of threats. The threats posed by malicious drones are too great to ignore, it is not enough to simply tell operators of unmanned aircraft not to fly in certain areas; we must give federal law enforcement the authority to act if necessary.
Translations for malicious
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- злостен, злобенBulgarian
- maliciósCatalan, Valencian
- zlomyslný, záludný, škodolibýCzech
- böse, boshaftGerman
- κακόβουλος, κακεντρεχής, μοχθηρός, κακοήθηςGreek
- malicaEsperanto
- malignoSpanish
- مخربPersian
- malveillant, mauvaisFrench
- दुर्भावनापूर्णHindi
- նենգArmenian
- jahatIndonesian
- malignaIdo
- malizioso, malevole, cattivo, dolosoItalian
- 悪意Japanese
- malignisLatin
- whakakinokino, hīkaka, waniwaniMāori
- boos, kwaadaardig, kwaadDutch
- ondsinnetNorwegian
- malicioso, maldosoPortuguese
- malitiosRomanian
- злой, злобный, злонамеренный, злоумышленный, злостныйRussian
- mȁliciōzan, zlonámjēran, zlȍbanSerbo-Croatian
- ond, maliciös, elak, uppsåtligSwedish
- шкідливийUkrainian
- độc hạiVietnamese
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