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maleficiently

maleficiently is the alternative form of maleficently.

Meaning of maleficently

Adverb

maleficently (comparative more maleficently, superlative most maleficently)

  1. In a maleficent manner.
    • Robson displayed extraordinary tragic power ; was maleficently passionate as Sir Giles Overreach, and anon, in the indispensable mad scene, as pathetic and pitiable as Lear.1882, Dutton Cook, “Frederick Robson”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 252, London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, page 729

Forms of maleficiently

comparativemore maleficiently
superlativemost maleficiently

Questions about maleficiently

What is maleficiently the alternative form of?
Maleficiently is the alternative form of maleficently.

Words near maleficiently in the dictionary

  1. maleficiated
  2. maleficiating
  3. maleficiation
  4. maleficience
  5. maleficient
  6. maleficiently
  7. malefics
  8. malefit
  9. malefits
  10. malefolk
  11. malefolks

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