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malicious
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As an adjective, malicious means intending to do harm.
Meanings of malicious
2 meaningsadjective
Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
“He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.”
Having the nature of or resulting from malice
“malicious gossip”
“took malicious pleasure in … watching me wince”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
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