maliciously


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ma·li·cious

 (mə-lĭsh′əs)
adj.
1. Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
2. Law Done with malice.

ma·li′cious·ly adv.
ma·li′cious·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.maliciously - with malicemaliciously - with malice; in a malicious manner; "she answered maliciously"
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Translations
بِحِقْد، بِخُبْث
zlomyslně
illgirnislega
kötü niyetle

maliciously

[məˈlɪʃəslɪ] ADVmaliciosamente, con malicia
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

maliciously

[məˈlɪʃəsli] adv [behave, gossip] → avec malveillance
a maliciously accurate imitation → une imitation cruellement fidèle
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

maliciously

adv actböswillig; say, smileboshaft
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

maliciously

[məˈlɪʃəslɪ] advcon cattiveria, malignamente (Law) → dolosamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

malice

(ˈmӕlis) noun
the wish to harm other people etc. There was no malice intended in what she said.
malˈicious (-ʃəs) adjective
She took a malicious pleasure in hurting others.
maˈliciously adverb
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References in classic literature ?
"I much regret her illness," said Prince Andrew; and he smiled like his father, coldly, maliciously, and unpleasantly.
"I'd like to see you get it," replied the General, laughing maliciously.
In reality, to depreciate a book maliciously, or even wantonly, is at least a very ill-natured office; and a morose snarling critic may, I believe, be suspected to be a bad man.
From beneath shaggy, beetling brows they glared maliciously upon him, maliciously and with a keen curiosity; then Tarzan entered the cabin and closed the door after him.
"Ancient hauberk, date of the sixth century, time of King Arthur and the Round Table; said to have belonged to the knight Sir Sagramor le Desirous; ob- serve the round hole through the chain-mail in the left breast; can't be accounted for; supposed to have been done with a bullet since invention of firearms -- per- haps maliciously by Cromwell's soldiers."
And from this time began an intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers, maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction.
"Does this wish, then, extend to the plural number?" asked Julia, smiling a little maliciously.
Not only does she maliciously depress me by walking past on ordinary days, but I have discovered that every Thursday from two to three she stands afar off, gazing hopelessly at the romantic post-office where she and he shall meet no more.
But one tires of all good things, and in the end, my father, chuckling maliciously the while, led the way across the trees.
Alban's sense of self-respect forbade him to try the experiment which Francine had maliciously suggested.
"Tommie?" suggested Lady Lydiard, still watching her nephew as maliciously as ever.
He turned again to the Caryan figure, maliciously resolving to make the manager his witness.