malicious
/muh-LISH-us/adjectiveintending to do harm; spiteful
“She deleted the files in a malicious attempt to sink the project.”
- Synonyms
- spiteful, vindictive, malevolent
- Antonyms
- kind, benign
- Root
- mal- (bad)
- Memory hook
- mal (bad) at its core: full of bad intent.
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