Malicious (Adjective)
Meaning
Having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The hacker accessed the database with malicious intent to steal sensitive information.
- The company is facing a lawsuit for allegedly spreading malicious rumors about its competitor.
- She took malicious pleasure in excluding her ex-boyfriend from the party guest list.
- The tone of the review was malicious, with the author seeming to take great delight in criticizing the restaurant.
- The malicious code injected into the system caused irreparable damage to the company's data.