Definition of Maliciously

1. Adverb. With malice; in a malicious manner. "She answered maliciously"

Partainyms: Malicious

Definition of Maliciously

1. Adverb. in a malicious manner, or for malicious reasons ¹

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Definition of Maliciously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maliciously

malic enzyme
malice
malice aforethought
malice prepense
maliced
maliceful
maliceless
malices
malicho
malichos
malicing
malicious
malicious gossip
malicious mischief
malicious prosecution
maliciously (current term)
maliciousness
maliciousnesses
maliferous
malign
malignance
malignances
malignancies
malignancy
malignancy and immunodeficiency
malignant
malignant anaemia
malignant anemia
malignant carcinoid syndrome
malignant catarrh

Literary usage of Maliciously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley, William Wait, William Blackstone (1875)
"And the unlawfully and maliciously attempting by any overt act to set fire to ... Also the unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to any mine of coal or ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"An act is, in contemplation of law, done maliciously, where it is wrongful and ... The word "maliciously," when used In a definition of a statutory crime, ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"pared with an action for malicious prosecution, is that it lies for the improper use of process after it has been issued, not for maliciously causing ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty, Richard Peters (1819)
"INDICTMENTS FOR ATTEMPTS TO MURDER BY POISON. At «om- That AG late of, &c. being a person of a wicked mind and against a deposition, and maliciously ..."

5. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"212. son shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to the dwelling- ... 4 enacts, " that if any shall wilfully and maliciously burn any stack of corn, hay, ..."

6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"No good and •ufficient reason can be given why he who has maliciously and without probable cause instituted a suit against another should not be required to ..."

7. A Digest of the Law of Libel and Slander: And of Actions on the Case for by William Blake Odgers, James Bromley Eames (1905)
"187, namely, that such a fair comment must not be published maliciously. It is possible, no doubt, that a fair comment written honestly by A. may be ..."

8. The Law of Torts by Melville Madison Bigelow (1901)
"maliciously PROCURING REFUSAL TO CONTRACT. Statement of the duty. A owes to B the duty not, by wrongful means, to procure C to refuse, to B's damage, ..."

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