How to Use malicious in a Sentence

malicious

adjective
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  • This has led to the spread of extreme and malicious views.
    — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
  • That was a malicious rumor born in the fever swamps of the message board 4chan.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2022
  • Users who click on the link open the malicious page or resource rather than the one that appears to be safe.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The malicious account on X bore the handle @Joseph_Gordon16.
    — Nicola Naber, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • And some of the malicious accounts may have Russian ties.
    — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Did Lee seem to be a more malicious person behind the wheel?
    — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The victim enters a game, playing one of the malicious game modes.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The malicious code was emailed to its victims inside a zip file.
    — Leah Becerra, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
  • Take heed to not assume the reason for a lack of response is malicious.
    — David Villa, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • On the one hand, there is the man in the office: grotesque, incoherent, malicious, dumb.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Her plea led to the dismissal of a charge of malicious punishment of a child, online court records say.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This wouldn’t even require FaceApp to be a malicious actor; they could be hacked.
    — Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • The Happ slide this weekend didn't appear to have malicious intent, and he was still called out.
    — The Tylt, AL.com, 16 May 2017
  • Any offer of these will lead to him doing more malicious and awful things around the world.
    — Bill Browder, Time, 12 July 2018
  • Her plea led to the dismissal of a charge of malicious punishment of a child, according to court records.
    — Tom James, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The attack on Sessions was malicious and not Trump's fault.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2018
  • For this reason, the cloud is a goldmine for malicious actors.
    — Kristen Lynch, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Some of these calls could be from pranksters, while others are from malicious actors.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Her plea also led to the dismissal of a charge of malicious punishment of a child, online court records say.
    — Paul Elias and Steven Dubois, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Google removed all the malicious apps in question, a spokesperson said.
    — Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • This includes scams, malicious software, and ATM skimmers, to name just a few threats.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Crawford was also found guilty of three counts of arson and one count of malicious burning in the trial.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 June 2023
  • Then the company updated its servers to block the malicious code.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Sweet mother of God, that is next-level malicious and sick!
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 1 Nov. 2017
  • That does not just screen out malicious bots, but also helps digitise books.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • None of it is malicious, and the young people are also quite capable of acts of kindness.
    — Rich Fahey, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The company said that the malicious actors did not hack its systems.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Fields has been charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit and run.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • That no line can truly be drawn between the malicious and the accidental, the voluntary and the forced.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The cover up did have malicious intent, and shame on these three for all eternity.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 6 Feb. 2018

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