1 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.
2 malicious behaviour is intended to harm other people: --
malicious damage/destruction
malicious accusations/allegations/gossip
The court ruled that she had not acted with malicious intent.
3 malicious software or computer programs are designed to damage other people's computers and prevent them from working normally: --
Communication is in no way protected from malicious applications.
A soft security approach fully anticipates and accepts, as does the society, the existence of malicious participants.
The main existing approaches are based on the idea to advertise reputation information in order to penalize peers with malicious behavior.
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.
Alternatively, a manipulative adult may try to confuse and mislead the child to cover up improper, reckless, or malicious conduct.
Guiding and regulating the behaviour of the agents in such systems to discourage malicious behaviour, harmful interactions and enhance trust is a difficult problem.
Furthermore, some will argue that the sort of malicious 'pleasure' described above does not really constitute pleasure or (positive) welfare.
When faced with a serious injustice, controlled selfdiscipline requires righteous indignation, which could easily take the form of anger, but not of malicious revenge.