different between malicious vs maligning
malicious
English
Alternative forms
- malitious (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French malicios, from Latin malitiosus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”). Displaced native Old English yfelwillende.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?l?sh'?s, IPA(key): /m??l???s/
Adjective
malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)
- Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
- spiteful and deliberately harmful
- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
Synonyms
- malevolent
- evil
- See also Thesaurus:evil
Derived terms
- maliciously
- maliciousness
- malicious mischief
Translations
malicious From the web:
- what malicious mean
- what malicious software replicates itself
- what malicious software
- what malicious code can do
- what does malicious mean
maligning
English
Verb
maligning
- present participle of malign
maligning From the web:
- maligning meaning
- what does malignant mean
- what does maligning
- what is maligning in tagalog
- what is maligning
- maligning definition
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