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Recent Examples of malicious Some theories are deplorable, devoid of any credibility, with the conspiracists being hurtful and malicious. Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025 Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have uncovered a malware-as-a-service operator that used public GitHub accounts as a channel for distributing an assortment of malicious software to targets. ArsTechnica, 17 July 2025 Vaus said the report also concluded that Blain spread gossip, rumors or innuendo about the city attorney of a malicious nature. Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2025 The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have antivirus software installed on all your devices. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for malicious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for malicious
Adjective
  • Over time, this can create a vicious cycle where poor sleep and chronic anxiety feed into each other, creating a loop that damages your well-being.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • There was a scary moment later in the third quarter when Charlotte’s James Banks III hit Sacramento’s Dylan Cardwell with a vicious elbow to the face.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025
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  • Each of us should demand our local leaders challenge every one of the immoral and cruel state laws and the Gestapo-like raids and inhumane detainments carried out by ICE agents.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
  • Even critics who considered his policies cruel and racist – and there were many – admitted that behind the bluster there was the charm of a true believer.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • His otherwise incomparable legacy will forever be stained by his hateful remarks about Black people.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • Late in the episode, Cartman calls off his suicide attempt after Butters helps convince him that there’s always hope for a return to the world where Cartman’s hateful trollery will again be a minority voice pushing back against the mainstream.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • For example, wildfires can not only cause direct injury and damage to people and property but can also spew all sorts of nasty stuff into the air.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Morton signed a one-year, $15 million deal with the Orioles this past offseason as a starting pitcher who had established himself with 17 years of MLB experience and a nasty curveball.
    Said Bravo, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • When they are both haunted by a malevolent spirit of bones and rot, the siblings are forced to reunite and venture deep into the forest to confront their trauma together.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 July 2025
  • Internet wags have wondered whether Gunn’s kindliness extends to malevolent immigrants like General Zod.
    Armond White, National Review, 18 July 2025
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  • Stewart’s switch from his usual snark to imitate Colbert’s buffoonery proved how spiteful and irreligious political humor has become since the left’s worship of Barack Obama and subsequent persecution of President Trump.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 July 2025
  • This dramatic change in the law comes a year and a half after a ProPublica investigation showed how the hotline had been weaponized by jealous exes, spiteful landlords and others who endlessly called in baseless allegations.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 20 June 2025
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  • There is just too much market demand for evidence that Trump and his works are wholly malignant.
    The Editors, National Review, 7 July 2025
  • Common types of adrenal tumors include adrenal adenomas (benign), adrenal carcinomas (malignant and prone to spreading) peochromocrytomas, and paragangliomas.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025

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“Malicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malicious. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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