Sentence examples for malicious trick from inspiring English sources

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A literary weekly in Czechoslovakia responded to the Time article by criticizing "the malicious trick," while hastening to add that it loved the book.

All that's happened is that it has now fully embraced the zeitgeist by pulling a malicious trick on its enemies just for the lulz.

unk).: it is, by turns, a malicious trick, a conjuring act performed to deceive or surprise, a mischievous frolic, and more.Homeric humourIf the prank is one of the more elusive arrows in the comedic quiver, it is also one of the oldest.

Bulgakov assumed it was a malicious trick of some kind – such things were common at that time, a grimly antic precursor of the persecutions to come – but when he picked up the handset he heard a voice say, "Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov?" and, when he affirmed this, "Comrade Stalin will talk to you now".

"Of all the kid stars, I think I came through with more of my buttons intact," he wrote in his best-selling memoir, "Please Don't Shoot My Dog" (1981, with Dick Kleiner), titled after a director's malicious trick to get him to cry for the cameras when he was 9. "Rooney is doing well now," he went on, "but only after eight marriages and a lengthy professional dry spell.

It's not a particularly malicious trick, but damn is it annoying.

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But there is a possibility that a malicious attacker could trick an iOS device connected to a network set to automatically adjusting its time settings into setting the date to 1 January 1970 by pretending to be a time server.

Turns out she slipped finely chopped mince in it in what I hope was a well meaning attempt to nourish me, not a malicious attempt to trick me into breaking my vegetable vows.

Hackers pirated 80 applications, added malicious code and tricked users into downloading them from the Android Market.

Clickjacking is a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous web pages.

Ignore pop-ups Pop-ups can contain malicious software which can trick a user into verifying something.

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