Malicious
adjective
Intending or intended to do harm.
He received a malicious email that infected his computer with a virus.
Often appears as...
- malicious intent
- malicious damage
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Disapproving
adjective
Having or showing a desire to cause harm to another.
The defendant was found guilty of malicious mischief.
Often appears as...
- malicious prosecution
- malicious falsehood
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Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Designed to cause damage to a computer, network, etc.
Malicious software can seriously harm your computer.
Often appears as...
- malicious code
- malicious attack
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Disapproving
adjective
Intending or intended to do harm.
He received a malicious email that infected his computer with a virus.
Often appears as...
- malicious intent
- malicious damage
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Having or showing a desire to cause harm to another.
The defendant was found guilty of malicious mischief.
Often appears as...
- malicious prosecution
- malicious falsehood
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Designed to cause damage to a computer, network, etc.
Malicious software can seriously harm your computer.
Often appears as...
- malicious code
- malicious attack
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Harm
Used when someone's actions are meant to hurt others personally or their reputation.
Spreading those rumors was a malicious act.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Anger
Implies a deeper, more intentional desire to harm than just being angry or upset.
Her malicious behavior was beyond simple frustration.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Hostility
Actions may not be openly violent but are underhandedly hurtful.
The critique was laced with malicious undertones.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Harm
Used when someone's actions are meant to hurt others personally or their reputation.
Spreading those rumors was a malicious act.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Anger
Implies a deeper, more intentional desire to harm than just being angry or upset.
Her malicious behavior was beyond simple frustration.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Hostility
Actions may not be openly violent but are underhandedly hurtful.
The critique was laced with malicious undertones.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Harm
Used when someone's actions are meant to hurt others personally or their reputation.
Spreading those rumors was a malicious act.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Anger
Implies a deeper, more intentional desire to harm than just being angry or upset.
Her malicious behavior was beyond simple frustration.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Hostility
Actions may not be openly violent but are underhandedly hurtful.
The critique was laced with malicious undertones.
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How to start your own...
technology also sparked the idea for another one of my animations called malicious dishes one day there was a virus on my computer and I was trying to get rid of it and all of a sudden I just thought what if viruses have their own little world inside of a computer maybe a restaurant where they meet up and do
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Math can save us from...
was computational power when I was in graduate school in the world and so the more software that you have the more bugs they're going to be in the software the more malware malicious software will be able to take advantage of it and allow hackers to break into systems which is why we're seeing all of these
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How Twitter needs to...
and maybe we can even see that to give us an example of what exactly I'm talking about, where you have these bots, if you will, or coordinated automated malicious account activity, that is being used to influence things like elections. And in this example we have from Zignal which they've shared with us
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James Lyne: Everyday...
before they release them on the world. For a small fee, they can upload it and make sure everything is good. But it goes further. Cybercriminals now have crime packs with business intelligence reporting dashboards to manage the distribution of their malicious code.
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Yochai Benkler:...
It has to support over 100 million users at any given moment. It's got to be robust to attack, including closing the main index, injecting malicious files, armed seizure of some major nodes. You'd say that would take years.
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How I responded to...
it can be hard to differentiate between harmful behaviors and normal ones. While some gamers are intentionally malicious, some may not even realize that they're perpetuating sexist behaviors in the first place.
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What I learned serving...
I would lose a career that I loved passionately. But that was not the worst. It got even worse than I could have ever imagined. I got arrested, maliciously charged
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We're building a...
are maliciously and deliberately trying to make the country or the world more polarized and encourage extremism. I read the many well-intentioned statements
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Could You Be A Sumo...
he collapses in exhaustion malicious or they don't want a story Keaney Oh Shindo my character key visual media modern Yogananda see
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Ruby Sales: How we can...
with malicious intent, killed my beloved friend and colleague, Jonathan Myrick Daniels.
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How to start your own...
technology also sparked the idea for another one of my animations called malicious dishes one day there was a virus on my computer and I was trying to get rid of it and all of a sudden I just thought what if viruses have their own little world inside of a computer maybe a restaurant where they meet up and do
Video examples
Math can save us from...
was computational power when I was in graduate school in the world and so the more software that you have the more bugs they're going to be in the software the more malware malicious software will be able to take advantage of it and allow hackers to break into systems which is why we're seeing all of these
Video examples
How Twitter needs to...
and maybe we can even see that to give us an example of what exactly I'm talking about, where you have these bots, if you will, or coordinated automated malicious account activity, that is being used to influence things like elections. And in this example we have from Zignal which they've shared with us
Video examples
James Lyne: Everyday...
before they release them on the world. For a small fee, they can upload it and make sure everything is good. But it goes further. Cybercriminals now have crime packs with business intelligence reporting dashboards to manage the distribution of their malicious code.
Video examples
Yochai Benkler:...
It has to support over 100 million users at any given moment. It's got to be robust to attack, including closing the main index, injecting malicious files, armed seizure of some major nodes. You'd say that would take years.
Video examples
How I responded to...
it can be hard to differentiate between harmful behaviors and normal ones. While some gamers are intentionally malicious, some may not even realize that they're perpetuating sexist behaviors in the first place.
Video examples
What I learned serving...
I would lose a career that I loved passionately. But that was not the worst. It got even worse than I could have ever imagined. I got arrested, maliciously charged
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We're building a...
are maliciously and deliberately trying to make the country or the world more polarized and encourage extremism. I read the many well-intentioned statements
Video examples
Could You Be A Sumo...
he collapses in exhaustion malicious or they don't want a story Keaney Oh Shindo my character key visual media modern Yogananda see
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Ruby Sales: How we can...
with malicious intent, killed my beloved friend and colleague, Jonathan Myrick Daniels.
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Judith Viorst
American Author
Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.
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Ashton Kutcher
American Actor
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.
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Matt de la Pena
American Writer
I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
American Psychologist
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.
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Gwendoline Christie
British Actress
The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.
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Paz de la Huerta
American Actress
Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.
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Trevor Noah
South African Comedian
What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.
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Taylor Sheridan
American Actor
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Ricky Whittle
British Actor
If things are said maliciously, and they're meant to hurt, then that's the sort of thing we need to try and stamp out.
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Jesse Ball
American Poet
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
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Judith Viorst
American Author
Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.
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Ashton Kutcher
American Actor
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.
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Matt de la Pena
American Writer
I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.
Quote examples
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
American Psychologist
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.
Quote examples
Gwendoline Christie
British Actress
The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.
Quote examples
Paz de la Huerta
American Actress
Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.
Quote examples
Trevor Noah
South African Comedian
What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.
Quote examples
Taylor Sheridan
American Actor
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
Quote examples
Ricky Whittle
British Actor
If things are said maliciously, and they're meant to hurt, then that's the sort of thing we need to try and stamp out.
Quote examples
Jesse Ball
American Poet
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
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