If you describe someone's words or actions as malicious, you mean that they are intended to harm people or their reputation, or cause them embarrassment and upset.
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That might merely have been malicious gossip...那也許僅僅是些不懷好意的流言蜚語(yǔ)罷了。She described the charges as malicious.她說這些指控用意惡毒。