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maliceful

maliceful adjective: showing malice, malicious.

Adjective

maliceful (comparative more maliceful, superlative most maliceful)

  1. Showing malice, malicious.
    • And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that’s tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 6

Forms of maliceful

comparativemore maliceful
superlativemost maliceful

Origin of maliceful

From malice + -ful.

Words formed from maliceful

  • malicefully

Questions about maliceful

What does maliceful mean?
Maliceful means showing malice, malicious.
What part of speech is maliceful?
Maliceful is an adjective.

Words near maliceful in the dictionary

  1. malice in law
  2. malice murder
  3. malice murders
  4. malice prepense
  5. maliced
  6. maliceful
  7. maliceless
  8. malices
  9. malicide
  10. malicides
  11. malicing

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