malicious (a)

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type a
lex_filenum 00
def having the nature of or resulting from malice
examples malicious gossip
took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince Rudyard Kipling
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Derivationally related form malicious → malice
Derivationally related form malicious → maliciousness
Antonym malicious → unmalicious
Similar to despiteful, spiteful, vindictive; leering; malevolent; beady-eyed; bitchy, catty, cattish; poisonous, venomous, vicious; venomed; vixenish
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Similar to despiteful, spiteful, vindictive; leering; malevolent; beady-eyed; bitchy, catty, cattish; poisonous, venomous, vicious; venomed; vixenish
Antonym unmalicious → malicious
Derived from adjective maliciously → malicious
Derivationally related form maliciousness → malicious
Derivationally related form malice → malicious

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