What's the difference between devilish and malicious?

Devilish


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
  • (a.) Extreme; excessive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He warned of the “devilish” intentions of the US, even as he reaffirmed his support for Iran’s negotiating team.
  • (2) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
  • (3) eneath the jokes, the headline fodder, the superstitions and devilish charm, there is another side to Cellino.
  • (4) Robbie Brady breezed past the right-back Emre Can to send a devilish cross into the six-yard box and Mignolet punched the ball out as far as Jake Livermore.
  • (5) Yet there the four sat piously deploring "complexity" in a tax system that keeps adding volumes to the code just to chase down their devilish loopholes.
  • (6) We are doing all we can to bring Peter Greste home.” The prosecution closed its case in Cairo on Thursday, accusing the three journalists of making a “devilish pact” with the Muslim Brotherhood, who were ousted from power by the Egyptian military in July 2013.
  • (7) Perhaps this devilish bait-and-switch enables us to understand better what political talk of “aspirations” for the masses really mean.
  • (8) Since then, in truth it has been a bit of a slog with consistency devilishly hard to come by.
  • (9) Their debut full-length, Hell on Heels , found them giving voice to third-generation bartenders, drug-addicted housewives and devilish gold-diggers.
  • (10) And you sense that if you put so much as a full stop in the wrong place, some devilish voice from hell will exclaim ' Muahaha....we got you ! '
  • (11) 3.08pm BST 8 min: This time City work the ball cleverly on the left, Kolarov playing a neat one-two with Toure and fizzing a devilish low ball into the six-yard box.
  • (12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
  • (13) But that was the least of the pain inflicted on Brunt by Zaha, whose speed and devilish dribbling tormented the left-back from start to finish.
  • (14) Devilishly cunning new legislation in 19 key US states, designed to place obstacles between voters and the ballot boxes most likely to affect those who vote Democrat, may eventually swing it for the Republicans.
  • (15) Stylish, devilishly expensive – the perfect bag in which to carry around statistics about third world debt.
  • (16) Two years later came The Destroying Angel – a much darker piece, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; a nightmarish series of encounters for a young seminarian with a devilish character and magic mushrooms.
  • (17) What if by some devilish miracle the great 1920s iconoclast H.L.
  • (18) Like every other globally traded commodity foodstuff, quinoa is devilishly complicated and prone to tragedy.
  • (19) Howard had to leave his line to block Dembélé early on, after Sylvain Distin's loose back pass and Rose's run and devilish cross nearly found Adebayor.
  • (20) What also gets overlooked sometimes is the devilish way they work to get the ball back when they lose it.

Malicious


Definition:

  • (a.) Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
  • (a.) Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.
  • (a.) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Already in 2014, Proofpoint found a 650% increase in social media spam compared to 2013, and 99% of malicious URLs in inappropriate content led to malware installation or credential phishing sites,” explains the company.
  • (2) Rather, it is those who use OSINT as a starting point for more malicious means.
  • (3) Those who say otherwise, he said, “have malicious intentions to damage the Chinese government in the name of birth control.” Family planning policy would be relaxed further over time, but the government had no timetable in mind.
  • (4) It's worth remembering that as the US and UK run around the world protesting the hacking activities of others and warning of the dangers of cyber-attacks , that duo is one of the most aggressive and malicious, if not the most aggressive and malicious, perpetrators of those attacks of anyone on the planet.
  • (5) The force said: “Leicestershire police is investigating a report of malicious communication being sent via social media.
  • (6) In response, the EU commission’s vice president, Frans Timmersmans, condemned Orban’s questionnaire as “malicious and wrong”.
  • (7) Anyone who opened the file risked being infected, as many anti-virus systems were not able to detect the malicious software, the researchers said.
  • (8) Prosecutions under the Malicious Communications Act have resulted in convictions, as in the case involving death threats tweeted at Caroline Criado-Perez .
  • (9) Instead of dropping banners, as Brotherston’s ISP did, it injects malicious JavaScript.
  • (10) And of course, if the software that infects your machine is malicious, there's the serious risk of identity theft.
  • (11) China bans major shareholders from selling their stakes for next six months Read more Police and regulators are investigating evidence of potential “malicious” short selling of Chinese shares, state news agency Xinhua reported.
  • (12) The Conservatives won their malicious campaign against Labour in the general election, ruthlessly demonising Ed Miliband and fanning anti-Scottish resentment.
  • (13) Justice Department representatives told one congressional aide that Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto was being used to establish "malicious intent" to illegally download large amounts of documents.
  • (14) "I took out nasty passages about people I admire – like Polly Toynbee, George Monbiot, Deborah Orr and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown … but in a few instances, I edited the entries of people I had clashed with in ways that were juvenile or malicious: I called one of them antisemitic and homophobic, and the other a drunk."
  • (15) Frances Knox, 44, from Hertfordshire, has resolved to change her passwords every month after she had her Skype account maliciously taken over by fraudsters on 21 December.
  • (16) Any suggestion of impropriety is malicious and defamatory and will be treated as such,” said a spokesman.
  • (17) The 'Sorry' campaign's suggestion that the Standard and its journalists lost touch with London is a malicious invention.
  • (18) We have identified this as a new and growing threat in the UK and you just have to look at the figures – in fact 51% of the malicious software threats that have ever been identified were in 2009."
  • (19) We are left to conclude that the purpose is a malicious one.
  • (20) The UK's biggest retailer began legal proceedings against the paper and its editor, Alan Rusbridger, for libel and malicious falsehood.