(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.
Vixen
Definition:
(n.) A female fox.
(n.) A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1980 was his best year for opera: the Cologne company (whose music director, John Pritchard, became a staunch supporter) brought Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Glasgow provided Berg's Wozzeck and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and the festival itself produced a distinguished world premiere in Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.
(2) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
(3) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(4) Blood samples were taken weekly from seventeen mature blue fox vixens (average age five years), from late anoestrus until pro-oestrus, and then taken daily.
(5) On the afternoon of 22 March, three weeks after the blockade began, Patrick’s Sea Vixen jet took off from the deck of Ark Royal on a bombing exercise, to practise dropping 500lb high-explosive bombs on targets placed in the sea.
(6) It appears that the rate of transmission between adult foxes is low; a more common route of transmission is probably from the mother to her offspring or between vixens breeding in the same dens in subsequent years by contamination of the dens.
(7) Completing Gomez's vixen quartet are Vanessa Hudgens, from Disney's High School Musical films, and Ashley Benson, from teen TV series Pretty Little Liars , as well as Korine's wife, Rachel.
(8) To study the pathogenicity of a newly isolated parvovirus of blue fox (Alopex lagopus), pregnant vixens and 43 kits of different ages were experimentally infected with the agent.
(9) A group of 15 blue fox vixens inoculated with the virus produced a statistically smaller number of kits (78) than did 15 untreated controls (131).
(10) Three blue fox vixens inseminated the following year with semen collected and frozen in June from 3 males in Group 6L failed to produce litters.
(11) Chronic ingestion of excessive amounts of fluoride from commercial fox food is associated with agalactia in vixens resulting in the starvation deaths of large numbers of kits in three fox herds.
(12) In the tenth vixen, an LH peak was not observed, and neither visible follicles nor corpora lutea were found in the ovaries 6 days after peak vaginal electrical resistance.
(13) Nine of 10 mature blue fox vixens (Alopex lagopus) in spontaneous oestrus ovulated approximately 2 days after the preovulatory increase in luteinizing hormone (LH).
(14) Embryos from vixens at different stages of gestation were measured and photographed.
(15) After infection, 15 vaccinated vixens gave birth to 97 kits, compared with 54 kits born to a similar, non-vaccinated experimental group.
(16) Effect of oestradiol and progesterone on the electromyographic activity (EMG) of the uterus is studied in 6 groups of 2 previously castrated vixens (A, B, C, D, E, F).
(17) Serena says on top of that, the Sea Vixen was “well-known to be a dangerous aircraft”; her father was one of six Ark Royal Sea Vixen aircrew killed in just 19 months.
(18) She therefore decided to return to acting, on Broadway, as the vixen Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's drama The Little Foxes, which she also played at the Victoria Palace theatre, London, in 1982 to mixed reviews.
(19) The MoD said a small number of "upgraded Snatch Vixen Plus" vehicles were used in Afghanistan, predominantly "behind the wire" on military bases, although they were also used in Kabul where the threat from IEDs was lower.