maleficent
- adjective
- /məˈlɛfɪsənt/
- Formal
:
maléfico
- Therefore, the majority in the Humanitarian Law Project found that terrorist organizations typically lack the "firewalls" to prevent material support from sympathetic charitable organizations from being funneled into their maleficent activities.
- maleficent and sinful
Examples
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The witch cast a maleficent spell that caused misfortune to the village.
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So Caesar named one Herod the Great, an Arab of the Bedouin tribe... ...as the new, false, and maleficent king of the Jews.
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What the English trials focused on first and foremost was simple Maleficent acts.
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But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being.
Academic text (1991) -
By means of a logical inconsistency, the boy now transforms the word into being, a "maleficent and sinful being," which frightens him but, at the same time, fascinates him: "I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work" (D 9).
Academic text (1991) -
His maleficent plots led to the downfall of many innocent people.
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The villain in the story was portrayed as a maleficent figure determined to cause chaos.
Synonyms
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8.0
Wanting to harm others
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4.1
Something that tries to cause harm or trouble
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9.9
Being harmful or evil to people and things
Causing harm to people, animals, or plants
Antonyms
How Harmful
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1.2
- Specialized
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7.2
- Formal
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8.2
- Formal
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2.6
80
3.1
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6.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word maleficent comes from the parts mal- meaning 'bad' and -ficent meaning 'to do', as in factory which makes things. So maleficent literally means 'doing bad', which is why it now means 'harmful' or 'evil'.