Adjective: malicious mu'li-shus
- Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
"malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in … watching me wince";
- poisonous, venomous, vicious, viperous
See also: beady-eyed, bitchy [informal], cattish [informal], catty [informal], despiteful [archaic], leering, malevolent, spiteful, venomed, vindictive, vixenish
Antonym: unmalicious
Encyclopedia: Malicious