How To Use Malicious In A Sentence

I open my eyes and there are her deep, cold, violet, malicious eyes, staring at me.
Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass. William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality
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I furiously scratched out what I had just written in the notebook, and replaced it with more than just a few malicious thoughts.
Ministry of Justice figures put the incidence of malicious allegations at 3 per cent of claims. Times, Sunday Times
False or malicious claims account for just three per cent of allegations. The Sun
There is already an affective disconnect with texting, facebooking and other social networking, and kids now are loosing their ability to read body language, facial expressions and other nonverbal cues and truly "egging" each other on with malicious behaviors through the use of texting, myspace and other social media. LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show
Have we not frequent apologies of our divines for the confutation of such false, malicious, and putid criminations? The Sermons of John Owen
The villagers hated them, and spread malicious gossip about their immorality and irreligion. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, it would be open to ultra-picky fault-finding customers or even malicious postings. Times, Sunday Times
The company started developing a type of malicious software known as adware that hackers install on PCs, where they served up pop-up ads for travel services, pornography, discounted drugs and other products, including its flawed antivirus software. IOL: News
All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho
The chief villain here is technology, or, at least, its malicious abusers.
The development is contained in a report by the Obama administration, International Strategy for Cyberspace, in which the US for the first time sets out a strategy for dealing with the expansion of the internet and what it describes as "arbitrary and malicious disruption". US calls on its Nato partners to help resist cyber-attacks
Execshield also randomizes the memory address of a program stack to make it harder for malicious code to know where to gain entry into the program.
This shortcoming creates a means for hackers to spam users with a maliciously constructed email designed to trigger this buffer overflow condition.
There are almost no reports of hauntings or malicious spirits these days.
But a spokesman for the Terrence Higgins Trust warned against rushing to criminalise people with HIV, except in cases where malicious intent was beyond doubt.
They cannot be sued for libel, malicious falsehood or conspiring to give false evidence.
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
One simple reason is that giving credence to honest reports can open the door to malicious slanders of every kind.
All viruses are malicious, nasty little programs written by misguided people.
But he gets no consolation from any of these, so malicious have his dealings with them been. The Times Literary Supplement
(Which I mostly view as lack of self-awareness rather than maliciousness.) Snark: Joe Hagan on ‘haute zoologist’ Heidi Julavits
To be fair to Bodin, the offenses poured out against him by his malicious contemporaries at the time of his adhesion to the League should be analyzed and understood historically.
She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore.
The latter camp included George Bush, who denounced it as a "foreign court" where "our troops and officials" would be in danger of malicious prosecution.
We have had snowballs thrown at us when they went past, but this was a deliberate and malicious act.
In malicious falsehood, the plaintiff has to prove that the statement is false.
They are accused of public violence, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and malicious damage to property after a demonstration outside the mayor's house in protest at electricity cut-offs in the city.
The report also said that readily available malicious code kits made it easy for relatively inexperienced hackers to mount attacks. Computing
In the first, because of the large sums obliged to be levied off them, as compensation to those whose cattle were maliciously houghed, or whose houses were burned; and in the latter, because of the great boon (the grant to improve the river) bestowed on Ireland by that government of which Lord Normanby was a prominent member. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
He gave a faintly malicious smile at her furious expression.
Mostly this is because they are simply insincere, and say what they say maliciously and in knowledge of its falsehood.
The Appellant lodged her appeal with the Care Standards Tribunal on 28 June 2004, claiming that the allegations of misconduct were unproved and malicious.
I think everyone would agree it was reckless, but it did not rise to the level of maliciousness, which is the intent to cause harm," Reed said. The Herald-Mail Online
You ought to kick back at such malicious slander.
As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest. Anatomy of Melancholy
That it's mischievous, not malicious. Times, Sunday Times
There's no sense in making things any easier for those with malicious intent.
Atkinson pleaded not guilty to malicious wounding but admitted unlawful wounding.
This impertinent and malicious insinuation made some impression upon the bystanders, and furnished ample field for slander to asperse the morals of Trunnion, who was represented through the whole district as a monster of barbarity. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
The script is peppered with hilarious, punchy one-liners and one malicious twist in the plot follows another to keep the momentum swinging nicely.
Using a host-based file system may expose you to viruses, file corruption, and accidental or malicious file deletion.
This attitude is never cruel or disrespectful or malicious.
These bogus alerts directed users to a maliciously constructed Web site run by Papierniak, instead of the genuine PayPal site.
In plain English, clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site.
Never accuse a reviewer of dishonesty or exaggeration; erroneous claims are often the result of a misunderstanding, not maliciousness.
In plain English, clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site. Techworld Australia News
Since there's no write protection, nothing will stop a malicious user from reformatting it with the Operating System's disk tools.
It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission.
The plaintiff claims that the lack of disclosure demonstrates maliciousness on the part of the investigative and prosecutorial defendants.
It is also unclear how maliciousness is determined.
The group reported 31,173 sites that spread crimeware — malicious software programmed to steal your password and other information — an 827% uptick from January 2008. Malware gets more malicious, boots small country offline
She had consistently refuted what she claimed to be malicious allegations from spiteful colleagues.
The referee said there was no malicious intent. The Sun
Ahwan is remembered as a place where the keen, raw wind seems to come whistling gleefully and yet maliciously from all points of the compass, seemingly centring in the caravansarai itself; these winds render any attempt to kindle a fire a dismal failure, resulting in smoke and watery eyes. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Most commonly, crimeware is spread by tricking users into running code that they got in email attachments or downloaded from a malicious web site.
This may be true or a malicious rumour. Times, Sunday Times
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.
This compelling legal drama welcomes veterans of stage and screen to the guest roster this week, including Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (the Dreamgirls movie, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) as a lawyer in nemesis Glenn Childs 'office as Alicia gets caught up in a multi-million dollar malicious prosecution case. Matt's Picks: October 11-14
The animals are like burglars in that they will get into a house if they can but at least their actions are instinctive, not malicious. The Sun
He described Thomas Paine as a traitor to his country, a wicked, malicious, seditious and ill-disposed individual, who had actively supported both the American and the French Revolutions.
Lucy was brutally taken from us in a malicious, callous and evil way leaving a gap in our lives never to be filled.
It was malicious gossip, completely without substance.
Unselfish or magnanimous lies serve as sort of social lubricant; injurious or malicious lies show the worst of human deception and cunning. Dr T.P.Chia
For example, there is no need to worry that the smart machine will indulge in tale-bearing and back-biting, much less plan palace intrigues and carry out malicious back-stabbing.
Miss Margland, who, with a malicious smile, asked if she was going to hold the bason? Camilla
The Americans are worried that they'll be the victim of spurious or malicious prosecutions.
There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.
Whether this model came about by malicious design or fortuity, the result is legal way to prevent consumers from exercising consumer choice and punishing companies for poor service. To Avoid Billions In Lawsuits, Cellphone Companies Propose Tepid Early Termination Fee Reform - The Consumerist
It is quite clear in the above exchange about Mr Woodhouse's gallantries that she knows she is galling Emma: she wants to gall her rival and does it with malicious and practised expertise.
The biggest threats come from malicious virus spreaders who can clog IT systems so effectively all traffic can come to a standstill.
Two people are facing possible prosecutions for malicious or criminal damage.
But whether it should or not, I am desirous that these words in the introduction to the extracts, vizt., — and as it has a malicious appear - ance to insinuate to the contrary — should be changed for the following, vizt., — hut as U has heen maliciously insinu - ated to the contrary* As the bearer waits I cannot add save, that I am with much regard, d 'S', Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Waldo & all his adherents, and this latter is nn inveterately malicious creature, will be restless and inde - fatigable till he comes away. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
This claim was for damages in the amount of $100,000 for malicious falsehood and punitive damages in the amount of $50,000.
One of the major flaws in the existing system is that the prosecutor has immunity from law suits claiming malicious prosecution.
You also need to keep out the bad guys who would love to fill your PC with malicious spyware, premium-rate diallers, internet worms and spam relays.
That meant that he was always hugely popular both in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, because his criticisms, although trenchant, were never malicious.
However, fabricating malicious falsehoods and then actively circulating them not only belies any profession of Christianity but is defamatory and libelous.
Of course there needs to be safeguards for teachers from false and malicious allegations.
And it points out that unvetted apps could turn out to be malicious - although such instances are rare. Times, Sunday Times
She raises the malicious wood and straw object above her head, aiming another blow.
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
He maliciously damaged a car with a baseball bat.
The latest type of attack, sometimes referred to as pharming, redirects a victim trying to go to popular legitimate sites instead to a malicious website or a pay-per-click website.
An altercation ensued at the lab, and Angeli was convicted this week of disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property.
The malicious neighbor spread the gossip.
The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator. The most recent articles from V3.co.uk
The reason most aren’t upheld is because vast majority of complaints are completely malicious or false. Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
He was arrested and charged with drunken driving, malicious damage to property and reckless and negligent driving.
It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission.
Malicious programs capable of turning home PCs into zombies controlled by hackers are growing at between 150 to 200 per week.
Outlook Personal Folders (known as PST files), opening e-mail, calendar, contacts, and other information to a host of applications such as antimalware or cloud-based services.. pst format could open up entirely new feature sets for programs such as search tools for mining mailboxes for relevant corporate data, new security tools that scan. pst data for malicious software, or e-discovery tools for meeting compliance regulations, according to Microsoft officials. Infoworld News
In later poems she is usually shown as treacherous and malicious, exerting a deadly and destructive power over men.
Malicious Gossip, Mouth of God, Many Daughters, Water, Titihuti, and others, and drank a last shell of _namu_ with these friends. White Shadows in the South Seas
The software giant has admitted that an attacker might be able to run malware of his choice simply by tricking a victim into visiting a maliciously constructed Web site.
His Gokar worm also had a malicious payload - it attempted to overwrite the main page on the websites of infected companies.
For example, there is no need to worry that the smart machine will indulge in tale-bearing and back-biting, much less plan palace intrigues and carry out malicious back-stabbing.
This may be true or a malicious rumour. Times, Sunday Times
While he spreads his malicious malpractice throughout time, you've been chosen to kick his butt.
Visitors are instructed to download their profile, which according to multiple sources is a malicious program (almost certainly a password stealer) that is hard to detect by the vast majority of anti-virus products on the market today. Nastygram: CDC 'swine flu' vaccine scam
That provides some amount of protection against the different kinds of frauds and trickery that could be played on voters by malicious computer hackery.
Why I should have the right to kill a malicious process on your machine
Oh, revenge is so sweet, I thought maliciously to myself.
We also want to put a stop to malicious and unfounded allegations. Times, Sunday Times
I have an active dislike of her because she's either very stupid or deliberately, maliciously, spiteful.
Not all were given as fouls and to my mind none was made with malicious intent. Times, Sunday Times
High tackles didn't drip into the culture of the game through malicious intent to hurt opponents. Times, Sunday Times
Because there was no way I could ever believe the words of a malicious, acidic, jealous bitch over those of someone who was as earnest, uncomplaining, and understanding as Will.
Revenge was such a malicious and stupid act in some people's definition, but the denotation to her was justice.
We have had to change our phone number three times because we were getting malicious calls. The Sun
[6796] He calls that other tenet of special [6797] election and reprobation, a prejudicate, envious and malicious opinion, apt to draw all men to desperation. Anatomy of Melancholy
The strong west wind off the sea maliciously whipped their cloaks around their bodies, making it difficult to walk.
The most common offences included larceny, burglary, malicious damage, criminal damage and a host of motoring offences.
He claimed that the letters from the defendants were defamatory, malicious and injurious as they were calculated to damage the name, political standing and reputation.
Such malicious castigation, which is internalized by the abused person as true, crushes the spirit of the recipient, and they retreat from the life they were living to follow the script of their destruction -- becoming a self-imposed prophecy. Jack Watts: Recovering From Religious Abuse
Not all were given as fouls and to my mind none was made with malicious intent. Times, Sunday Times
When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish. The Translation of a Savage, Volume 1
The sacred edifice, completely in their hands, was soon laid waste; they broke down the altars, destroyed the monuments, and -- much will the bibliophile deplore it -- set fire to their immense library "_ingens bibliotheca_," maliciously tearing into pieces all their valuable and numerous charters, evidences, and writings. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
When the dismal news of his great loss was carried to the Prince, he suspected his godmother very much indeed; but, he knew that his servants must have kept company with the malicious beldame, and must have given way to her, and therefore he resolved to turn those servants out of their places. Reprinted Pieces
He had wrongly used that word; it sounded malicious; and to call consenting the same in fact as choosing was wilfully unjust. The Egoist
How on earth had this bit of malicious gossip reached the post? THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
To my mind, this is corporate cyberterrorism, corporate cybertheft if you like, and it's as repugnant as an any malicious attack on a Web site.
High tackles didn't drip into the culture of the game through malicious intent to hurt opponents. Times, Sunday Times
The malicious rumours compromised her good reputation.
He is not nasty or vindictive or malicious. Times, Sunday Times
It did rather lose its marbles towards the end and had turned malicious after one particularly thorough seeing to by a bloke who didn't know how to switch it on and powered it up at least nine times in a way that the manual expressly forbade.
We do not tolerate abusive, malicious, libelous, defamatory or personal attacks.
Final exams are the most evil, satanic, malicious event ever crafted by mankind.
San Thome, as reported by 'a common fame, 'and the malicious breaking of the peace' which hath been so happily established, and so long inviolately continued. ' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
The malicious software can detect NVRAM resets and behave accordingly. Wilders Security Forums
However, when the information is false, malicious, misleading and is a personal attack on me, then I feel I have no other choice but to defend myself and set the record straight.
She strongly refuted rumours that she pursued the case for malicious reasons.
Now it seems to me very convenient to delineate, as it were, in the rough draught, those signs and marks that distinguish a malicious narration from a candid and unbiassed one, applying afterwards every point we shall examine to such as appertain to them. Essays and Miscellanies
The current law of malicious damage produced far too erratic and uncertain results.
Then she stood up, the rough edge of her voice gone again now: 'I'm not being malicious, Mr Baker. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
High tackles didn't drip into the culture of the game through malicious intent to hurt opponents. Times, Sunday Times
Lorraine's comment was unprovoked, a direct verbal assault done for the sole purpose of her own malicious pleasure.
The Attorney General and Crown attorneys are immune from civil suit except in the case of malicious prosecution.
False or malicious claims account for just three per cent of allegations. The Sun
She recalled the wolfish gleam that flashed into Bethune's eyes, and the malicious hatred expressed in his insinuations and accusations against these men. The Gold Girl
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
If the slogan-makers really are maliciously and "subliminally" calling for prayers for the death of our President, they're worse than ignorant or impious. The Moderate Voice
But rather than ascribing it to any sort of malicious intent he said it's likely a "cockup rather than a conspiracy.
While he spreads his malicious malpractice throughout time, you've been chosen to kick his butt.
It does not have a malicious payload, meaning it does not destroy or alter information within a computer.
And so the most part of the people that heard the king speak and saw him among them, were shamefast and began to wax peaceable and to depart; but some, such as were malicious and evil, would not depart, but made semblant as though they would do somewhat. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Visitors are instructed to download their profile, which according to multiple sources is a malicious program almost certainly a password stealer that is hard to detect by the vast majority of anti-virus products on the market today. Nastygram: CDC 'swine flu' vaccine scam
These are both common ways that people infect their computers with malicious software. Times, Sunday Times
Any reference to me is a malicious fabrication and completely untrue. Times, Sunday Times
He watches with unmalicious amusement as other independents emerge, overstretch themselves and fail. Times, Sunday Times
According to one unconfirmed report the fires may have been started deliberately as part of a malicious attack against a telco.
Or he had rubbed against something like turps, or even been maliciously splashed with it.
He was held on remand, charged with causing malicious damage to property.
I suspect that self-identification will play the largest role in making the distinction, but we must also be vigilant for those who might maliciously misrepresent their politics in order to stay in one country or the other.
There are many ill-bred crooks and criminals out there who try to install malicious software and scripts on unsuspecting web surfers.
However, the profession is strongly opposed to any such move because it fears it would open the floodgates for malicious claims against its members.
This was something the Anglo-Saxons seem to have understood, as their legislation focused on malicious destruction of single trees by incendiaries, not willful setting of forest fires.
The defense's case: These alleged acts were not culpable or committed with malicious intent and so they are not impeachable.
She called for automatic expulsion for pupils who made malicious allegations against teachers.
She hated being fitted since she usually was prodded and poked by malicious pins.
She said they would be charged with breach of the peace and malicious damage offences.
she answered maliciously
False or malicious claims account for just three per cent of allegations. The Sun
Was there not even now a curious malicious gleam in her dark eye, a frown upon her forehead, a kind of puckered and contemptuous smile upon her lips? Ringfield A Novel
He described Thomas Paine as a traitor to his country, a wicked, malicious, seditious and ill-disposed individual, who had actively supported both the American and the French Revolutions.
The villagers hated them, and spread malicious gossip about their immorality and irreligion. Times, Sunday Times
But not before the game because that is malicious and vicious. Times, Sunday Times
This little green-eyed troublemaker is sneaking up all over my relationship, through narrowed eyes, snippy retorts, and generally malicious thoughts.
It was just this past Sunday when the world witnessed one of the wobbliest hours of Fox's golden child, the post-Super Bowl letdown featuring a dazzling "Thriller"-"Heads Will Roll" mashup, a more malicious Sue than we ever needed, and very little else. Watercooler: Has Glee Redeemed Itself?
If you have exposed some crime that he really committed, your sin is called detraction; if you accuse him of one he did not commit, your sin is calumny; and if you maliciously circulate these reports to injure his character, your sin is slander. Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
And despite it, the drama rings true, from the angrily delayed passenger to the horror-struck office worker and her petty and malicious co-workers.
He smiled maliciously, his blue eyes glinting with something akin to lust.
‘The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them,’ the company advises.
He is not nasty or vindictive or malicious. Times, Sunday Times
These themes show the preoccupations of both virus writers and those they are targeting with their malicious code, Cluley reckons.
A malicious third party could easily intercept this information by placing a sniffer upstream of the company's servers.
This cape buffalo is a vicious beast that charges at humans seemingly for fun. Big game hunters cherish them for their malicious history.
Everything conspires to bring out the worst in him as he turns petty, malicious and vindictive.
The NSW gynaecologist, known as GSR, is on trial at the NSW District Court, facing charges of female genital mutilation and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. The Australian | News |
They will quiz him about wasting police time and malicious calls. The Sun
Over against the malicious slanders of these men is the nearly universal admiration for Othello.
It certainly can be a possible way of distributing malicious code over the internet to the subscribers of the RSS feed.
He was held on remand, charged with causing malicious damage to property.
Match tapes are routinely studied after the final whistle to either get red cards rescinded on appeal or charges brought for malicious tackles that the officials miss. The Sun
I was being labeled as a volatile, malicious bitch, and whenever anyone said anything to me, they would cower slightly, as if they were just waiting for me to lash out at them.
Social media blog Mashable wrote: "Trending topics are a great way to find out what's hot in the Twitterverse, but they're also a haven for malicious hackers and spammers."
In law the term malice and its adverbial form maliciously have two meanings: "legal malice" (also known as "malice in law"), and Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The takeover was in response to the fact that an estimated 80 percent of PCs are infected by spyware and other potentially malicious software such as keyloggers and dialers.
Thousands of offences including grievous bodily harm and malicious wounding are being cleared up with no more than an apology. Times, Sunday Times
The animals are like burglars in that they will get into a house if they can but at least their actions are instinctive, not malicious. The Sun
Since when is punishing someone for willfully and maliciously damaging another person's property "wrongheaded"? An Alternative Approach to the Graffiti “Problem” « PubliCola
To remove the worm, a system administrator had to run a program that erased the malicious code; then, the administrator had to patch the vulnerability so that the computer would not get reinfected.
Another pillar of his judgment involved the legal concept of malicious falsehood. Times, Sunday Times
So it's kind of forgivable because it's not with malicious intent, it's just out of ignorance. CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007
Of course, message boards also attract attention-seekers, pranksters and malicious gossipers.

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