All malicious synonyms
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M m adj malicious
- vengeful β desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
- spiteful β full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- vicious β addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- pernicious β causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- mischievous β maliciously or playfully annoying.
- malignant β disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- virulent β actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- nasty β physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- wicked β evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- venomous β (of an animal) having a gland or glands for secreting venom; able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound: a venomous snake.
- malevolent β wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- awful β If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good.
- baleful β Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
- beastly β If you describe something as beastly, you mean that it is very unpleasant.
- bitter β In a bitter argument or conflict, people argue very angrily or fight very fiercely.
- catty β If someone, especially a woman or girl, is being catty, they are being unpleasant and unkind.
- deleterious β Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- detrimental β Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- green β of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
- green-eyed β jealous; envious; distrustful.
- gross β without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- injurious β harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- jealous β feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- low β to utter by or as by lowing.
- malign β to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- mean β to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- noxious β harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- ornery β ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- poisonous β full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- despiteful β spiteful; malicious
- rancorous β full of or showing rancor.
- resentful β full of or marked by resentment.
- cussed β obstinate
- ill-disposed β unfriendly, unsympathetic, or having a negative attitude, as toward another person or an idea.
- uncool β not self-assured or relaxed: He felt very uncool, making a speech to strangers.
adverb malicious
- willfully β deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
adjective malicious
noun malicious
- vilification β to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- libel β the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
- traducement β to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.