malefic

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When malefic or in conjunction with malefics, it is destructive like Mars.

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  1. adjective Having or exerting a malignant influence.
  2. adjective Evil; malicious.

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  • That programmer knows exactly what he or she is doing, and his or her intentions are malefic (or at least, not altruistic). —  Maximum Security -- Ch 11 -- Trojans
  • "It only pricked when you gave me all eleven at once Generally malefic, or specifically directed?" —  THE RAVEN RING
  • In "Decision for Murder / Murder," Rozsa ingeniously turns the music box into a malefic orchestral jig, climaxed with the shock chords of the Wells and Amy seeing the results of Jack's fiendish appetites.
  • Both the Bush and Clinton regimes enveloped a great collection of deviant personages and Obama has melded many of these with his own appointments of crooks, liars, and tax cheats to cast a malefic assemblage to assist him with his transforming of the United States into a Marxist communist regime.
  • Somewhere along the way, my transcendent hope and cheer for Obama has descended into malefic jeers toward McCain and Palin. —  Magenta Past
 

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  1. Latin maleficus : male, ill; see mel-3 in Indo-European roots + -ficus, -fic.

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  1. = French maléfique = Spanish maléfico = Portuguese malefico = Italian malefico, from Latin maleficus (also malificus), evil-doing, hurtful, mischievous, from malefacere, do evil: see malefaction.
 

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/məˈlɛfɪk/
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