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Meaning of Malicious
Done with malice (g. v.)
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Synonyms of Malicious
adjective
- acrimonious
- antagonistic
- brutal
- cruel
- demoniac
- demoniacal
- destructive
- diabolic
- diabolical
- evil
- evilminded
- feral
- ferocious
- harmful
- hateful
- hostile
- illdisposed
- illnatured
- invidious
- invidus
- malefic
- maleficent
- maleficial
- malevolent
- malevolus
- malignant
- merciless
- mischievous
- ornery
- pernicious
- relentless
- resentful
- ruthless
- savage
- spiteful
- treacherous
- truculent
- unfeeling
- venemous
- vicious
- vindictive
- virulent
- wanton
- wicked Associated Concepts: malicious mischief
- malicious prosecutionforeign phrases: Malitiis hominum est obviandum
- The malicious designs of men must be thwarted
Grammar
This term is an adjetive.
Etimology of Malicious
(You may find malicious at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
early 13c., from Old French malicios “showing ill will, spiteful, wicked” (Modern French malicieux), from Latin malitiosus “wicked, malicious,” from malitia “badness, ill will, spite,” from malus “bad, unpleasant” (see mal-). In legal use (early 14c., Anglo-French), it means “characterized by malice prepense.”
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