English Word Root: mal

bad, wrong
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1 maladroit   Speak   Example Sentences
a. showing lack of skill; clumsy or awkward
2 malady   Speak   Example Sentences
n. disease, disorder, or ailment; unwholesome condition
3 malaise   Speak   Example Sentences
n. general sense of depression or unease; vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness
4 malapropism   Speak   Example Sentences
n. comic misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound
5 malcontent   Speak   Example Sentences
n. a person dissatisfied with current conditions; a discontented person
6 malediction   Speak   Example Sentences
n. curse; evil-speaking; the utterance of curse or execration
7 malefactor   Speak   Example Sentences
n. criminal; one who does evil or injury to another
8 malevolent   Speak   Example Sentences
a. having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious
9 malfeasance   Speak   Example Sentences
n. misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by public official
10 malfunction   Speak   Example Sentences
n. failure; breakdown; faulty or abnormal functioning
11 malice   Speak   Example Sentences
n. the enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another
12 malicious   Speak   Example Sentences
a. deliberately harmful; proceeding from extreme hatred
13 malign   Speak   Example Sentences
v. speak evil of; bad-mouth; defame
14 malignant   Speak   Example Sentences
a. injurious; tending to cause death; disposed to do evil
15 malingerer   Speak   Example Sentences
n. one who feigns illness to escape duty
16 malnutrition   Speak   Example Sentences
n. state of poor nutrition
17 malodorous   Speak   Example Sentences
a. foul-smelling; having bad or offensive odor
18 maltreat   Speak   Example Sentences
v. treat ill; abuse; treat roughly.