malicious
adjective
he bore their malicious insults with dignity:
spiteful, malevolent, hostile, bitter, venomous, poisonous, evil-intentioned, ill-natured, evil, baleful, vindictive, vengeful, vitriolic, rancorous, malign, malignant, pernicious, mean, nasty, harmful, hurtful, mischievous, destructive, wounding, cruel, unkind, defamatory;
informal bitchy, catty;
literary malefic, maleficent.
▷antonyms benevolent.