Malicious and Reckless

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Malicious

Malicious adjective - Having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it.
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Reckless and malicious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reckless" instead an adjective "Malicious".
Nearby Words: malice, malignant, maliciously

Reckless

Reckless adjective - Having or showing a lack of concern for the consequences of one's actions.
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Malicious and reckless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Malicious" instead an adjective "Reckless".
Nearby Words: recklessness, recklessly

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  • Inspector Javert Morgan. He starts out as a Well-Intentioned Extremist and almost malicious about it, but after seven books or so his opinion of Harry gets upgraded to "reckless and unpredictable but probably not evil" (which, to be fair, is pretty accurate).
    Source: Inspector Javert
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