Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective ) one who enjoys using
slanderous language - adjective archaic
reproachful in speech - adjective archaic
slanderous
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Examples
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The maledicent Bodyguard, more Bodyguards than he do now give fire; a man's arm is shattered.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; and actually fire?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Think of Mr. Cowen's artifices as being the sum of two components: a maledicent component that consists of the common desire since Charlie Haughey for our taoisigh to parlay the coffer of the taxpayer into a personal multimillion-euro financial empire and an impulsive component that consists of everything else.
Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52 Concerned Irishman 2009
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Compare the always generous Mark Sarvas (stunned with happiness at Obama’s victory, he says quietly, “Look at what this amazing country did” to the always maledicent Michael Bérubé (who is wowed by Obama’s win, but not so much by the victories of Senators Norm Coleman and Gordon Smith or by California’s approval of a gay-marriage ban, sneeringboggling: “Dang, what is wrong with you people?”
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Compare the always generous Mark Sarvas (stunned with happiness at Obama’s victory, he says quietly, “Look at what this amazing country did” to the always maledicent Michael Bérubé (who is wowed by Obama’s win, but not so much by the victories of Senators Norm Coleman and Gordon Smith or by California’s approval of a gay-marriage ban, sneeringboggling: “Dang, what is wrong with you people?”
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mialuthien commented on the word maledicent
maledicent – one who is addicted to abusive speech
July 18, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word maledicent
JM swears by his maledicent friends!
November 22, 2009
qms commented on the word maledicent
The annals record not a precedent
For comments like these of our president.
Some language was salty
Or grammar was faulty
But none so obtuse or maledicent.
September 6, 2018