Malice, n. Malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, rancor, venom, hate, spite, ill-will, enmity, bitterness, grudge, pique.
Malicious, a. Malevolent, malignant, spiteful, ill-disposed, ill-natured, evil-minded, mischievous, resentful, bitter, rancorous, envious, invidious.
Maliciousness, n. Malevolence, malice, malignity, ill-will, enmity.
Malign, a.
- 1. Malicious, malevolent, malignant, ill-disposed.
- 2. Injurious, pernicious, unfavorable, baneful, very bad, unpropitious.
Malign, v. a. Revile, slander, abuse, calumniate, asperse, defame, blacken, traduce, scandalize, disparage, vilify.
Malignance, Malignancy, n.
- 1. Malice, malignity, bitter enmity, extreme malevolence.
- 2. Unfavorableness, unpropitiousness.
- 3. Virulence, deadliness, malignity.
Malignant, a.
- 1. Malign, malicious, malevolent, bitter, rancorous, spiteful, resentful, envious, virulently inimical.
- 2. Unpropitious, unfavorable, ill-boding.
- 3. Extremely heinous, virulent, pernicious.
- 4. (Med.) Dangerous, fatal, virulent.
Maligner, n. Vilifier, slanderer, traducer, calumniator, backbiter, libeller, defamer.
Malignity, n.
- 1. Malice, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, hatred, animosity, ill-will, rancor, spite.
- 2. Virulence, fatality, malignancy, deadliness, destructiveness.
- 3. Heinousness, enormity, evilness.