mal-, male-, mali-

Faulty or anomalous formation or structure of parts, especially of a living body.

Badly formed; marked by malformation.

1. Faulty, abnormal, or bad functioning.
2. To fail to function properly or normally, or stop functioning altogether, usually because of a fault or bad design.
3. A disordered, inadequate, or abnormal function.

1. Not performing or able to perform a regular function.
2. Faulty functioning.

1. The desire to injure another person; active ill-will or hatred.
2. A kind of evil intent that constitutes the aggravation of guilt distinctive of certain offences (especially, of murder), or which deprives some act, on the face of it unlawful, of a justification or excuse that might otherwise have been allowed.

A reference to people, their dispositions, etc. who lean toward malice; addicted to sentiments or acts of ill-will.

Of bad example; of bad precedent.

In the nature of a bad precedent or a bad example.

Bringing, or producing evil; unwholesome, insalubrious.

1. Tending to injure or to harm; malignant.
2. Of people and their dispositions; characterized by ill-will; desiring, or rejoicing in, the suffering of others; malignant, malevolent.
3. Of things evil in nature and effects; baleful, gravely injurious.

1. Showing great malevolence; disposed to do evil.
2. Malignant or intensely malevolent disposition; envenomed hostility; desire to inflict injury or suffering.

1. Of a disease; characterized by extreme virulence; exceptionally contagious or infectious. Now chiefly used as the distinctive epithet of a definite variety of a disease, as in malignant cholera, malignant small-pox, etc.
2. Growing worse, resisting treatment, said of cancerous growths.
3. Tending or threatening to produce death; harmful; virulent.
4. Characterized by malignity or intense ill-will; keenly desirous of the suffering or misfortune of another, or of others generally.