malicious : Idioms & Phrases


Malicious abandonment

  • the desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. Burrill.
Webster 1913

malicious gossip

  • noun disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
    scandal; dirt.
WordNet

Malicious mischief

  • 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 prosecutionarrest

  • (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. Bouvier.
Webster 1913