malicious

Alternative forms

• malitious (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French malicios, from Latin malitiosus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”).

Adjective

malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)

1. Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
2. spiteful and deliberately harmful

   He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.