malicefuladj.
/ˈmalᵻsf(ʊ)l/, U.S. /ˈmæləsfəl/ Now regional.
= malicious adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [adjective]
teenfulOE
atteryc1175
ondfula1200
maliciousa1250
doggedc1300
enviousc1330
venoma1350
spitous?a1366
despitousc1374
heinous?a1400
venomyc1400
sinister1411
sputousc1420
doggish?a1425
cankered?a1439
doggya1450
sinistrous1460
spity1481
despiteful1488
spiteful1490
despiteous?1510
viperious?1510
peevisha1522
maliceful1522
envyful1530
viperinec1540
viperous?1542
vipered1560
uncanny1596
dogged-sprighted1600
maliced1602
ill-minded1611
virulent1613
ill-hearteda1617
doleful1617
spitish1627
splenial1641
litherlya1643
venomsome1660
slim1674
viper1721
vipereal1750
viperish1755
vicious1825
waspish1855
viperian1866
viperan1877
cattish1883
catty1886
bitchy1928
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adjective]
loathOE
teenfulOE
nithefulOE
ondfula1200
maliciousa1250
doggedc1300
enviousc1330
venomousa1340
venoma1350
spitous?a1366
despitousc1374
heinous?a1400
unkindlya1400
venomyc1400
sinister1411
sputousc1420
doggish?a1425
cankered?a1439
doggya1450
sinistrous1460
spity1481
despiteful1488
spiteful1490
despiteous?1510
viperious?1510
peevisha1522
envyful1530
viperous1535
viperinec1540
vipered1560
bad-minded1588
uncanny1596
dogged-sprighted1600
toothsome1601
maliced1602
ill-minded1611
virulent1613
ill-hearteda1617
doleful1617
spitish1627
ill-meaning1633
splenial1641
litherlya1643
venomsome1660
slim1668
cat-witted1672
vipereal1750
viperish1755
méchant1813
vicious1825
maliceful1840
mean1841
waspish1855
viperian1866
viperan1877
cattish1883
catty1886
bad mind1904
bitchy1908
1522-3 [see malicefully adv. at Derivatives].
1647 A. Eyre Diary 23 May in R. Houlbrooke Eng. Family Life (1988) 66 I went to Holmfrith and heard Gamaliel Apleyard preach a very malicefull sermon.
1840 E. A. Poe Fall House of Usher (new ed.) in Tales of Grotesque & Arabesque I. 98 The hermit..was of an obstinate and maliceful turn.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) (at cited word) She's quick in her tempers an' hes getten a foul tongue, but she's no ways maliceful.
1893 National Observer 25 Mar. 468/1 Being maliceful of humour I praised that smile.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 21/2 And that looked so maliceful.
Derivatives
ˈmalicefully adv.
ΚΠ
1522–3 Selkirk Burgh Court f. 98v That..the said Wolle Turnbyll suld have said malicefully, Jhone Smyth pak ȝow in ȝour hous [etc.].
1998 Kundalini-l-d Digest (Electronic text) 98 No. 376 I hate that. I don't mean malicefully or degradingly, but I just reject that strongly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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