as in vicious
having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it
the neighborhood chatterbox has again been spreading malicious gossip
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Recent Examples of malicious
In January, Baldwin sued Santa Fe officials for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations for pursuing criminal charges against him in the accidental shooting death.
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Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
Now, Microsoft has identified a resurfaced malware that has returned after years, equipped with new malicious capabilities, including stealing sensitive information such as digital wallets and data from the legitimate Notes app.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
As the technology behind deepfakes advances, the need to fight their malicious usage has never been greater.
—Rohan Pinto, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The attackers did so by first compromising the credentials of a Safe Developer, and then injecting malicious Javascript code a Safe{Wallet} system, according to Bybit.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
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Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
Now, Microsoft has identified a resurfaced malware that has returned after years, equipped with new malicious capabilities, including stealing sensitive information such as digital wallets and data from the legitimate Notes app.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
As the technology behind deepfakes advances, the need to fight their malicious usage has never been greater.
—Rohan Pinto, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The attackers did so by first compromising the credentials of a Safe Developer, and then injecting malicious Javascript code a Safe{Wallet} system, according to Bybit.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malicious
Adjective
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Ferran’s Blanche puts up a vicious fight, but Mescal’s Stanley relishes the roughhousing.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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At age 55, the director of the vicious South Korean social satire Parasite specializes in adolescent appeal.—
Armond White,
National Review,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Immigration advocates call the crackdown cruel and wrongheaded and warn that many Latino U.S. citizens will likely suffer violations of their civil rights and possibly even get mistakenly deported.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2025
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As mere surrogates, the Trump-DeSantis fight to outdo each other through mean and cruel policies will go on.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Except for then-Council member Dan Kalb, who suggested some remarks were crazy, not one council member rose to condemn these hateful falsehoods.—
Mark Cohen,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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That a little rectangle of cardboard and paper and ink is no match for all the hateful rhetoric about books somehow hurting children.—
Sarah Hoffman and Ian Hoffman,
TIME,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And then, to top a nasty joke with a nastier one, he was deemed useless for the final twenty years of his life.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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That jab opened up several nasty cuts around Rountree's eye and on the bridge of his nose.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In that great play, part of the pleasure is teasing out when the host couple, George and Martha, are playing a malevolent prank on their guests or tearing each other apart for real.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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There’s plenty of palace intrigue, bloody battle sequences, and a showdown with the Dauphin (a malevolent Robert Pattinson), marking a bold departure from Chalamet’s previous artsy roles.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The more spiteful Drake could smell a world of buff, misogynistic grifters taking hold and made sure to set up shop where the audience would be.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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But when he’s presumed dead after a tragic run-in with a pirate ship, our heroine is forced to take up with the spiteful Prince Humperdink—that is, until a masked man in black jumps in to save her.—
Gia Yetikyel,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
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Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, is no longer responding to treatment for an aggressive and malignant brain tumor known as glioblastoma, with which she was diagnosed in 2022.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly malignant and very aggressive type of cancer responsible for about 13% of all lung cancers.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Malicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malicious. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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