Examples of malicious in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The movie starred Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston as Roger and Carolyn Perron, two parents who try to protect their children from malicious spirits in their new home. Keith Langston, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024 After building a relationship with their victims, malicious actors are then able to convince them to download seemingly legit applications to execute their crime. Morning Brew, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024 There were pleas to be seen and then the purposeful, often malicious refusals to see. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024 In reality, the sites try to dupe users into downloading malware programs that can secretly steal passwords, internet cookies, and other sensitive data from their PCs by redirecting them to a new domain that hosts the malicious payload. Michael Kan, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for malicious 

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“Malicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malicious. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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