I.full of wickedness, wicked, knavish, crafty, malicious.
I. In gen. (class.): “homo,” Cic. Off. 3, 13, 57: “malitiosissimus,” Front. ad M. Caes. 4, 3.—Of things: “juris interpretatio,” Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33.—
II. As nom. prop.: “Silva Malitiosa,” a forest in the Sabine territory, Liv. 1, 30, 9; = ὕλη κακοῦργος, Dion. 3, 33. —Hence, adv.: mălĭtĭōsē , wickedly, knavishly, perfidiously: “quicquam agi dolose, aut malitiose,” Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61: “facere aliquid,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 132.—Comp.: “rem mandatam malitiosius gerere,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111.
