MEANING
Doing or tending to produce evil or harmful effects.
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- maleficent influence
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A maleficent influence spread through the house.
The charm served a maleficent purpose.
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- maleficent
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more maleficent; superlative most maleficent where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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