Synonyms of malicious

adjectiveIntending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.

• evil
• maleficentHarmful or evil in intent or effect.
• malevolentHaving or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
• abandonedHaving given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
• badEvil; wicked.
• bad appleA person who is not wholesome, honest, or trustworthy, especially one who has an adverse influence on others.
• bad seed
• baleful
• scurrilous
• baneful
• baseMorally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• black-heartedHaving a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• darkWithout moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
• deleterious
• demonicExtremely cruel or evil; abhorrent or repugnant; diabolical.
• depraved
• despicableFit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
• detrimentalCausing damage or harm.
• devilishEvil, wicked.
• diabolicalExtremely wicked or cruel.
• evil-mindedHaving evil thoughts or intentions.
• flagitious literary
• harmfulCausing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.
• heinous
• ill-intentionedHaving bad intentions; malevolent.
• ill-natured
• immoralBreaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or...
• incorrigible
• iniquitousMorally objectionable; sinful, wicked.
• injurious
• knavishHaving the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.
• maleficHaving an evil or harmful influence; baleful.
• malign
• malignantHarmful, malevolent, injurious.
• nefariousSinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
• no-goodHaving no value, use or merit.
• peccaminousSinful.
• pernicious
• reprehensible
• reprobate
• satanicEvil, fiendish, devilish or diabolical.
• scathful
• sinfulConstituting a sin; morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil.
• sinisterEvil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
• sordid
• ungodlyImmoral, sinful, or wicked.
• unholy
• vicious
• vile
• villainous
• wickedEvil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
• wrong
• barbarousMercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
• brutalSavagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
• compassionlessWithout compassion; hardhearted.
• cruel
• diabolic figurativelyWicked; evil; cruel.
• fellOf a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
• incessiveFierce; cruel and aggressive.
• inhumanOf or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
• inhumane
• mercilessShowing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
• nastySpiteful, unkind.
• nonhumaneNot humane, inhumane.
• pitilessHaving, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
• remorselessWithout remorse, mercy or pity.
• rottenCruel, mean or immoral.
• ruthlessWithout pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
• sadisticDelighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
• savageBrutal, vicious, or merciless.
• spitefulFilled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.
• truculentCruel or savage.
• unbenevolentNot benevolent.
• unbenignNot benign; malevolent.
• unkind
• unmercifulNot showing mercy.
• unpityingNot feeling or showing pity.
• arrant datedVery bad; despicable.
• facinorous archaicExtremely wicked.
• iniquous obsoleteSynonym of iniquitous.
• naughty archaic, rareEvil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
• niddering archaicSynonym of nithing (“cowardly, dastardly; notoriously evil or wicked; infamous”).
• nidering archaic
• niding archaic
• nithing archaicNotoriously evil or wicked; infamous.
• sullen obsoleteMischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
• bowelless obsoleteWithout pity.
• despiteful archaicFull of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.
• inclement obsoleteMerciless, unrelenting.
• unpitiful archaicWithout pity; pitiless.