Usually means: Causing harm or evil deliberately.
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  1. maleficient: Wordnik
  2. maleficient: Wiktionary
  3. Maleficient, maleficient: Dictionary.com
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  5. Maleficient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. maleficient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Maleficient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. maleficient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ adjective:  (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of maleficent [Harmful or evil in intent or effect.]

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maleficent, evil, malevolent, malefactory, malevolous, malign, maliceful, malignant, malicious, mischievous, more...

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maleficent, evil, malevolent, malefactory, malevolous, malign, maliceful, malignant, malicious, mischievous, more...



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