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Definition: Maliciously |
MaliciouslyAdverb1. With malice; in a malicious manner; "she answered maliciously". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "maliciously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Maliciously |
| English words defined with "maliciously": adultery ♦ criminal conversation ♦ despitefully ♦ fornication ♦ infernal machine ♦ malice aforethought ♦ ribbing ♦ spitefully ♦ tease, teasing, torch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "maliciously": Acrobat, ASPERSE, attack on freedom of faith and freedom of worship ♦ disturbing the peace of the dead ♦ Eel ♦ firing a mine ♦ Lift not up your Horn on High ♦ Malice, maliciously causing financial loss to another, misuse of the telephone. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Never let it be said that a Hardy's Spotless reputation to be so maliciously tread upon. (Tit for Tat; writing credit: Stan Laurel) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Maliciously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maliciously" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 107 | 31,463 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "maliciously": criticize maliciously ♦ maliciously causing financial loss to another. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "maliciously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 恶意地 (Wantonly). (various references) | |
Czech | zlomyslnì (gloatingly, mischievously). (various references) | |
Dutch | met de bedoeling schade te berokkenen. (various references) | |
Finnish | vahingoittamistarkoituksessa. (various references) | |
French | dans l'intention de nuire. (various references) | |
German | boshaft (catty, fiendish, impish, invidious, malevolent, malicious, mischievous, mischievously, nasty, poisonous, shrewish, spiteful, spitefully, vicious, wicked). (various references) | |
Greek | κακόβουλα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בז"ון (premeditatedly, wilfully). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szándékosan (advisedly, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely, wilfully, willfully, wittingly), rosszhiszeműen (spitefully), kajánul (fiendishly, malevolently, sardonically), gonoszul (evil, viciously, vixenly, wrongly). (various references) | |
Italian | con l'intento di arrecare pregiudizio, allo scopo di nuocere. (various references) | |
Korean | 악의 있. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aliciouslymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mal-intencionado (evil-speaking, evince, ill-affected), com intenção de prejudicar, animus nocendi. (various references) | |
Romanian | maliţios (invidious, spiteful, spitefully), din picã, din invidie (out of envy), cu rãutate (archly, evil, malevolently), cu premeditare (by design, deliberately, of set purpose, purposely, with design, with malice aforethought). (various references) | |
Russian | злонамеренно. (various references) | |
Spanish | con malevolencia (malevolently). (various references) | |
Swedish | med ont uppsåt. (various references) | |
Turkish | kasten (by design, consciously, deliberately, intentionally, knowingly, of malice aforethought, of malice prepense, on purpose, purposely, studiedly, wilfully, willfully, with malice aforethought, with malice prepense, wittingly), kötü niyetle (in bad faith, malafide, malevolently, malignantly, with malice aforethought), inadına (from pure spite, just for spite, out of spite, purposely), art niyetle (malafide). (various references) | |
Ukranian | злісно (darkly, nastily, wrathily), зловмисно. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | ECCLESIASTICUS Chapter 1, Verse 40 |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Ecclesiastes Chapter 1, Verse 40 |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "maliciously": unmaliciously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "maliciously" (pronounced muli"shuslē) |
| 8 | -u l i" sh u s l ē | deliciously. |
| 6 | -i" sh u s l ē | ambitiously, capriciously, expeditiously, judiciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, viciously. |
| 5 | -sh u s l ē | anxiously, cautiously, consciously, facetiously, fallaciously, ferociously, graciously, hellaciously, ostentatiously, subconsciously, tenaciously, unconsciously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, anonymously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, conscientiously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, fabulously, famously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, jealously, laboriously, listlessly, ludicrously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, synonymously, tediously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, variously, vicariously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-l-m-o-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: malicious, musically. | |
-3 letters: clumsily, localism, loyalism, silicula, socially. | |
-4 letters: alliums, callous, cullays, laicism, lousily, misally, miscall, mollusc, mousily, mucosal, musical, saucily, slimily. | |
-5 letters: aiolis, aliyos, allium, alloys, amicus, amylic, asylum, callus, calmly, caulis, cilium, claims, clumsy, cosily, coulis, cullay, cullis, cymols, cymous, lacily, lilacs, limuli, locals, loculi, locums, maills, miaous, miauls, mislay, mosaic, mucosa, mullas, muscly, oilily, oscula, scilla, sialic, silica, slalom, slimly, sluicy, social, sulcal, umiacs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-l-m-o-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: unmaliciously. | |
+3 letters: mucilaginously. | |
+4 letters: communistically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 69 63 69 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-.. .. -.-. .. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l i c i o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 0069 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767787569758187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Bible Trace | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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