mal-, male-, mali-
(Latin: bad, badly, harsh, wrong; ill; evil; abnormal, defective; used primarily as a prefix)
This combining form has no etymological connection to "male", meaning "man" or "masculine"; despite what some women may think.
maligner
malignity
1. Wicked and deep-rooted ill-will or hatred; intense and persistent desire to cause suffering to another person; propensity to this feeling.
2. A reference to diseases or wounds; malignant character, malignancy.
3. The condition or quality of being highly dangerous or injurious; deadliness.
malinger
1. To feign (fake) illness; usually to arouse sympathy, to escape work, or to continue to receive compensation.
2. To pretend illness, or to produce or to protract disease, in order to escape duty.
malingerer
Someone who pretends to be sick in order to avoid some responsibility.
malingerer
malingering
Pretending to be sick.
malinterdigitation
Abnormal intercuspal relation of the upper and lower teeth [Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary].
malis avibus
Bad birds.
With unlucky birds; a reference to bad auspices (prophecies for the future).
malison
1. A swearword, an obscenity, or a blasphemous oath; a malediction.
2. A malevolent appeal to a supernatural being for harm to come to someone or something, or the harm that is thought to result from this.
malneirophrenia
In a state of depression following a nightmare.
malnourished
Suffering from or provided with insufficient nutrition or nourishment; undernourished.
malnutrition
Inadequate nutrition.
malocclusion
Faulty occlusion (of the teeth).
malodor
Smelling unpleasant or offensive.
malodorous
An evil and/or a terribly bad odor or smell.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "bad, wrong":
caco-, kako-;
dys-;
mis-;
pessim-;
sceler-.
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