💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Malintent"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| malicenoun | Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune. |
| misintentionnoun | A wrong intention. |
| designnoun | A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system. |
| malice prepensenoun | Malice aforethought. |
| malice in factnoun | (law) Provable intent to commit a crime or otherwise do harm. |
| malicious mischiefnoun | (law) The willful, wanton, or reckless destruction of the personal property of another occasioned by actual ill will or resentment toward the owner or possessor of such property. |
| malenginenoun | (archaic) Evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit. |
| malo animonoun | (law) Ill intent. |
| maltalentnoun | (obsolete) Ill will; malice, malevolence. |
| bad mindnoun | (Caribbean, Jamaica) malicious intent; animosity |
| malevolencynoun | Malevolence, malice. |
| malice in lawnoun | (law) The state of having done something illegal without an intention of breaking the law. |
| malicious prosecutionnoun | (law) The wrongful initiation or continuation of criminal or civil proceedings against an individual without reasonable grounds and with improper motives. |
| malignancynoun | A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign. |
| bad faithnoun | (law) An intent to deceive or mislead another to gain some advantage; dishonesty or fraud in a transaction (such as knowingly misrepresenting the quality of something that is being bought or sold). |
| maleficencenoun | harmfulness or mischief. |
| malignmentnoun | The act of maligning something. |
| male engyne | — |
| spitenoun | Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice |
| devilmentnoun | (uncountable) Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this. |
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