Vocabulary
Malicious
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Intended to harm or upset other people
Urdu meaning
بدنیتی پر مبنی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Rushing to courts to file suits and petitions, whether for genuine grievances or malicious intent, is easy for litigants in a complainant-centred judicial system.
- The logic of`cost imposed` is to form a judicial shield to protect the respondent from any further malicious litigation from the litigant.
- Given the rise in property frauds in the capital territory, unethical counsels who facilitate malicious litigation, and insidious litigants who harass innocent citizens must be viewed as a propertygrabbing team.
- This exemplifies a petty, malicious approach being used by the Hindu revivalist Indian government to hurt Pakistan by using the terrible attack in IHK as a convenient alibi.
- Since she was arrested, a malicious campaign has been launched against her on both social and mainstream media, linking her with Baloch secessionists and the gruesome attack targeting the Jaffar Express.
Synonyms
Malignant, Nasty, Spiteful
Antonyms
Aiding, Assisting, Decent
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