Kind and Malicious

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Kind adjective - Given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others.

Usage example: providing the grieving widow with a homemade meal was a kind deed

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Malicious is an antonym for kind.

Nearby Words: kindly, kindness, kindliness

Malicious adjective - Having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it.

Usage example: the neighborhood chatterbox has again been spreading malicious gossip

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Kind is an antonym for malicious in topics: spiteful, hateful.

Nearby Words: malice, malignant, maliciously

Subverted when another, non-malicious ghost is revealed to have the same kind of eyes.

Source: Literature / Heart-Shaped Box
Hikaru cares little for the malicious slander surrounding Asou and is attracted to his kind heart.

Source: Manga / Sora Log
They have hunted Dragon-kind to near extinction, and the lands grow more and more barren with the Orcs' malicious harvesting of its resources.

Source: Video Game / Dragon Rage

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