How to Use malicious in a Sentence

malicious

adjective

• This has led to the spread of extreme and malicious views.
  — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
• The malicious program’s name comes from the name of this file.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The roughing the passer on Dorlus wasn’t malicious but the fan base of the quarterback will want the call and the fan base of the defender will hate it.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2022
• 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
• There were pleas to be seen and then the purposeful, often malicious refusals to see.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Preventing access to such pages, or to pages containing malicious code, can be the first line of defense for an antivirus tool.
  — PCMAG, 22 Oct. 2024
• The men a year later sued New York City for false arrest, malicious prosecution and racially motivated conspiracy.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024