Definition of malicious
Adjectives
having the nature of or resulting from malice
"malicious gossip"
"took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
- Synonyms:
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despiteful, spiteful, vindictive
showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite
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leering
showing sly or knowing malice in a glance
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malevolent
wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred
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beady-eyed
having eyes that gleam with malice
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bitchy, cattish, catty
marked by or arising from malice
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poisonous, venomous, vicious
marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
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venomed
full of malice or hate
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vixenish
shrewish and malicious
- Antonyms:
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unmalicious
not malicious or spiteful
Vocabulary Lists for malicious
- Macbeth
- thane
- weird sister
- hautboy
- Duncan
- root canal
- scorekeeper
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- work shift
- take office