maleficent

maleficent
adj
1. pernicious, perilous, inimical, hurtful, harmful, baleful, baneful, deleterious, injurious, pestilential, pestiferous, noxious, detrimental, destructive; deadly, lethal, Obs. lethiferous, fatal, poisonous, toxic.
2. malign, malignant, malevolent, malicious, malefic, evil-intentioned, evil-disposed; hostile, antagonistic, unfriendly, obnoxious, ill-natured, churlish, surly; depraved, degenerate, debased, evil, villainous, base, vile, foul, heinous, atrocious; inhuman, Archaic. im-mane, unnatural, pitiless, merciless, unfeeling; implacable, relentless, grim, black-hearted, hard-hearted, cold-blooded, vicious, harsh, oppressive, cruel; ruthless, brutal, truculent, ferocious, savage, bloodthirsty, murderous, homicidal, feral, ferine; fiendish, demoniac, diabolic, evil-minded, fell, devilish, satanic, hellish, infernal.

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