Malignant and Malicious

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

Usage example: a malignant wish to lash out at everyone who was smarter, richer, or better-looking than he was

Malicious is a synonym for malignant in spiteful topic. In some cases you can use "Malicious" instead an adjective "Malignant", when it comes to topics like attitude, vicious, hostile, malevolent. popular alternative

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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

Malignant is a synonym for malicious in spiteful topic. You can use "Malignant" instead an adjective "Malicious", if it concerns topics such as attitude, hateful, vicious, malevolent. popular alternative

Nearby Words: malice, malignant, maliciously

character	malignant character	malicious character
force	malignant force	malicious force
entity	malignant entity	malicious entity
god	malignant god	malicious god
Other nouns: example, personality, monster, version, demon, spirits, forces, entities, ghosts.

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