• adj.
    ⦿wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred
    lexical concept
  • a gossipy malevolent old woman
  • failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:malevolent
wn:interlingual indexili:i1240

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelmalevolent