malicious : Idioms & Phrases
Malicious abandonment
- the desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. Burrill.
Webster 1913
malicious gossip
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noun disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
scandal; dirt.
WordNet
Malicious mischief
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noun willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others
vandalism; hooliganism.
WordNet
(Law) , malicious injury to the property of another; an offense at common law. Wharton.
Webster 1913
Malicious prosecution ∨ arrest
(Law) , a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. Bouvier.