"I don't think it was a malicious attempt," he said, although "the policy as it turned out in practice was not economically or morally acceptable."

But their malicious attempt lead them into a huge consequence.

It started as a malicious attempt to slander someone and possibly to improve the social standing of the people who made up the story.

It was, in fact, a wicked and malicious attempt on the part of some third person to fix the crime on the prisoner.

He saw that the malicious attempt to hurt him had failed.

"In malicious attempts to harm our theaters," declared Griscom.

This is usually associated either with malicious cracking attempts or with network administrators looking for possible vulnerabilities to help prevent such attacks.

Don't distress yourself... about any malicious attempts to injure me in the estimation of my countrymen.

Any malicious attempt to harvest the data from the host PC would be unable to locate the data.

Definitely a malicious attempt to render you incapable of defending your Hall.