maliceful

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adjective

Showing malice, malicious.

Scrabble 16
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Meanings

adjectivemaliceful (comparative more maliceful, superlative most maliceful)

comparative more maliceful · superlative most maliceful

  1. Showing malice, malicious.

    And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that’s tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.

    1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 6

Origin

From malice + -ful.

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APA

maliceful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maliceful

MLA

“maliceful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maliceful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “maliceful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maliceful.

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