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121Badness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities. < N PARAG:Badness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 hurtfulness hurtfulness &c.???adj. Sgm: N 1 virulence virulence GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 evil doer evil doer &c. 913 Sgm: N 2 bane …
122ogynnsam — • elakartad, farlig, allvarlig, perniciös, malign med., vet. • elakartad, farlig, allvarlig, perniciös, malign …
123malapropism — [19] English owes the word malapropism to Mrs Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan’s play The Rivals 1775 whose grandiloquent impulses led her to use slightly (but ludicrously) the wrong word: amongst the most familiar of her errors are… …
124maligner — early 15c., agent noun from MALIGN (Cf. malign) (v.) …
125malignity — late 14c., from O.Fr. maligneté, from L. malignitas ill will, spite, from malignus (see MALIGN (Cf. malign) (adj.)) …
126pernicious — a. 1. Hurtful, harmful, deleterious, injurious, detrimental, baneful, baleful, prejudicial, noxious, noisome, mischievous, damaging, disadvantageous, destructive, ruinous, fatal, deadly, malign. 2. Malicious, wicked, evil hearted, malignant,… …
127hacker — An individual with a good understanding of the structure and operation of computer networks, who deliberately breaks into confidential systems. In many cases there are no malign intentions, although hackers can cause damage by inadvertently… …
128defame — verb she has defamed my character Syn: libel, slander, malign, cast aspersions on, smear, traduce, give someone a bad name, run down, speak ill of, vilify, besmirch, stigmatize, disparage, denigrate, discredit, decry; informal do a hatchet job on …
