having or showing hatred and a desire to harm sb or hurt their feelings:
malicious gossip / lies / rumours * He took malicious pleasure in telling me what she had said.
maliciously adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is malicious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, malicious is tagged as adjective.
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