Synset

having the nature of or resulting from malice
<adj.all>

sample sentences

"malicious gossip"
"took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

malice maliciousness

antonym

semantic pointers

similar to

spiteful, vindictive, despiteful leering malevolent beady-eyed bitchy, catty, cattish poisonous, venomous, vicious venomed vixenish