maliciously

malicious | American Dictionary

malicious
adjective
us/məˈlɪʃ·əs/
intending to cause harm, esp. by hurting someone’s feelings or reputation:
He says she threatened him and spied on him, among other malicious activities.

malicious | Business English

malicious
adjective
uk /məˈlɪʃəs/us
malicious behaviour is intended to harm other people:
The court ruled that she had not acted with malicious intent.
malicious accusations/allegations/gossip
malicious damage/destruction
INTERNET, IT
malicious software or computer programs are designed to damage other people's computers and prevent them from working normally:
Recent incidents have demonstrated how easily malicious hackers are able to disrupt the operations of many large companies.
malicious programs/software

maliciously

adverb
The lawsuit accused the defendant of maliciously using the logo "to cause confusion".

Examples of malicious

malicious
They should note the recent press reports that malicious hackers are still active.
The latter also ensure that agents are properly authenticated and therefore present a first line of defence against malicious agents in open multi-agent systems.
If there were no malicious individuals in society, there would be no need for trust, and no need for security for that matter.
The critical point is that the input operation could have been programmed to download a malicious component from a remote, untrusted, host.
Five separate statutes were included: larceny, malicious damage to property, forgery, coinage, and offences against the person.
He concluded that the malicious intentions of his client's wife would make her request for divorce invalid.
Their crimes were not driven by malicious calculation, but sparked by the most mundane disagreements that escalated out of control.
When faced with a serious injustice, controlled selfdiscipline requires righteous indignation, which could easily take the form of anger, but not of malicious revenge.
Furthermore, some will argue that the sort of malicious 'pleasure' described above does not really constitute pleasure or (positive) welfare.
Guiding and regulating the behaviour of the agents in such systems to discourage malicious behaviour, harmful interactions and enhance trust is a difficult problem.
Alternatively, a manipulative adult may try to confuse and mislead the child to cover up improper, reckless, or malicious conduct.
At the same view it was ordained by the mayor and jurats that anyone addressing malicious words to the mayor would be fined 3s 4d.
The main existing approaches are based on the idea to advertise reputation information in order to penalize peers with malicious behavior.
A soft security approach fully anticipates and accepts, as does the society, the existence of malicious participants.
Communication is in no way protected from malicious applications.
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