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mal-prefix
bad, badly as in maladjusted, malcontent - faulty, faultily as in malfunction
mal-prefix
not
Etymology: From mal- from the adverb male, from malus.
Webster Dictionary
Mal-
a prefix in composition denoting ill,or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mal- in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mal- in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of mal- in a Sentence
King Edward the Third, Motto of the order of the Garter:
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)
Our federal partners will remain up and running in an enhanced posture, because we understand that it's a ripe opportunity for foreign adversaries to inject mis - or dis - or mal-information into the news cycles and try to undermine confidence.
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."
You say hi to them and they'll say,' hey, beautiful' or' hey, darling.' That's just like every day that kind of thing happens, i don't think it's always with mal-intention, but you have these older men who you just see them looking you up and down and I get often -- like, until people have started to get to know me -- people have thought that I was a staffer or they thought that I was a reporter, like it didn't even occur to them that I would be a member of Congress.
Evil is a coal: if it does not burn, it blackens. (Le mal est un charbon: S'il ne brûle pas, il noircit)
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