malicious

In a sentence

Six example sentences with malicious, each labelled with its topic.

• The update quarantined a malicious attachment that would have encrypted every file on the accounting laptop overnight.

  Technology

• The jury decided the review was careless rather than malicious, so the newspaper avoided damages entirely.

  Law

• Children often read a clumsy shove as malicious, and teachers spend the first weeks teaching them to check intentions.

  Psychology

• The rumor that the bakery used stale flour was malicious, spread by a rival who opened two doors down.

  Business

• Moderators banned a malicious player who kept luring newcomers into the swamp and leaving them stranded there.

  Gaming

• The senator called the leaked memo malicious, since it quoted his words without the sentence that changed their meaning.

  Politics

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