| gen. |
bad; plain; ugly; stupid; black; black-hearted; evil; ill (evil or unlucky • ill luck); blackhearted; dark (о поступке); malign; naughty; sinister; wrong; male- (male- : a combining form meaning "evil," occurring in loanwords from Latin: malediction.
Compare mal-. || Origin of male-, From Latin; see origin at mal- (a combining form meaning "bad," "wrongful," "ill," occurring originally in loanwords from French (malapert); on this model, used in the formation of other words (malfunction; malcontent).)  dictionary.com); a bad lot; negative; unclean; immoral; sinful; unsound; obnoxious (Ремедиос_П); ropey; unsavory (Баян); coarse; defaulted; foul; jadish (о лошади); mean; miserable; nought; paltry; peccant; poor; sad; ill-conditioned; ominous (плохой • The coup in Mali is an ominous sign for Francophone west Africa. Abysslooker); set at naught; shabby; slippery; sorry; spurious |
