Usually means: Intending harm, malevolent, deliberately harmful.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word malicious:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. malicious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. malicious: Merriam-Webster
  3. malicious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. malicious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. malicious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. malicious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Malicious, malicious: Wordnik
  8. malicious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. malicious: Wiktionary
  10. malicious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. malicious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. malicious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. malicious: Dictionary.com
  14. malicious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Malicious (video game), Malicious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Malicious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. malicious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. malicious: Rhymezone
  19. malicious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. malicious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. malicious: FreeDictionary.org
  22. malicious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. malicious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. malicious: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. malicious: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. malicious: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. malicious: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. malicious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See maliciously as well.)

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adjective:  Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.

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