malitiōsus, a, um, adj. malitia, full of wickedness, wicked, knavish, crafty, malicious. 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.

— As nom. prop.: Silva Malitiosa, a forest in the Sabine territory, Liv. 1, 30, 9; = ὕλη κακοῦργος, Dion. 3, 33.

—Hence, adv.: malitiōsē, 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.