Meaning | Having the nature of or resulting from malice. |
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Examples | - "malicious gossip"
- "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
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Narrower | beady-eyed | Having eyes that gleam with malice |
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bitchy, catty, cattish | marked by or arising from malice |
despiteful, spiteful, vindictive | showing malicious ill ... / ill will and a desire to hurt |
leering | showing sly or knowing malice in a glance |
malevolent | wishing or appearing to wish evil to others |
poisonous, venomous, vicious | marked by deep ill ... / ill will |
venomed | Full of malice or hate |
vixenish | shrewish and malicious |
Opposite | unmalicious | not malicious or spiteful |
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Spanish | malicioso, maligno |
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Catalan | maliciós |
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Nouns | malice, maliciousness | feeling a need to see others suffer |
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Adverbs | maliciously | with malice |
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