|  malicious 
 
 having the nature of or resulting from malice
 - malicious gossip
 - "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
 • Ant:
 unmalicious
 • Similar to:
 despiteful, spiteful, vindictive, leering, malevolent,
 beady-eyed, bitchy, catty, cattish, poisonous, venomous,
 vicious, venomed, vixenish
 • Derivationally related forms:
 malice, maliciousness
 
 
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