Malignant

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1. Adjective

Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

2. Adjective

Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.

3. Adjective

Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.

4. Noun

A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.

5. Noun

One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.

6. Adjective

dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
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