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Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. Landor.

A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.

malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.

Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.

The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

A salt of malic acid.

ting, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

e distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

Same as Malicho.

te crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.

Ill will; malice. [Obs.] Rom. of R. Spenser.

rrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. Swift.

arnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope.

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. Locke. Slaughter grows mur…

person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]