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ma\u2027li\u2027cious<\/strong> \/ m\u0259\u02c8l\u026a\u0283\u0259s \/ adjective<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

very unkind and cruel, and deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset or hurt someone :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>a malicious girl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

malicious gossip\/rumour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Who is responsible for these malicious rumours?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 maliciously <\/strong>adverb<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 maliciousness <\/strong>noun<\/em> [ uncountable ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THESAURUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

unkind<\/strong> treating people in a way that makes them unhappy or upset. Unkind<\/strong> sounds rather formal. In everyday English, people usually say mean<\/strong> or nasty <\/strong>: Children can be very unkind to each other. <\/em>| a rather unkind remark<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

mean <\/strong>especially spoken<\/em> unkind : Don\u2019t be mean to your sister! <\/em>| It was a mean thing to do.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

nasty<\/strong> deliberately unkind, and seeming to enjoy making people unhappy : He said some really nasty things before he left. <\/em>| a nasty man<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

hurtful<\/strong> unkind \u2013 used about remarks and actions : Joe couldn\u2019t forget the hurtful things she had said. <\/em>| Couples sometimes do hurtful things to each other.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

spiteful<\/strong> deliberately unkind to someone because you are jealous of them or angry with them : The other women were spiteful to her, and gave her the hardest work to do. <\/em>| She watched them with spiteful glee (= pleasure ) .<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

malicious<\/strong> deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset, hurt, or cause problems for someone : Someone had been spreading malicious rumours about him. <\/em>| There was a malicious smile on her face. <\/em>| an act of malicious vandalism <\/em>| The accusations are malicious.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

unsympathetic<\/strong> not seeming to care about someone\u2019s problems, and not trying to help them or make them feel better : Her parents were very unsympathetic, and told her that she deserved to fail her exam. <\/em>| an unsympathetic boss<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

hard-hearted<\/strong> very unsympathetic and not caring at all about other people\u2019s feelings : Was he hard-hearted enough to leave his son in jail overnight? <\/em>| a hard-hearted businessman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ma\u2027li\u2027cious \/ m\u0259\u02c8l\u026a\u0283\u0259s \/ adjective very unkind and cruel, and deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset or hurt someone : a malicious girl malicious gossip\/rumour Who is responsible for these malicious rumours? \u2014 maliciously adverb \u2014 maliciousness noun [ uncountable ] THESAURUS unkind treating people in a way that makes them …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[8,24],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}