malhonnêteté (-nêt-té), n.f., impoliteness, rudeness, incivility; rude action; dishonesty, knavery. Il est d’une — révoltante; he is shockingly rude.
malice, n.f., malice, maliciousness, spite; roguishness, archness; prank, waggish thing, roguish thing, trick, dodge.
malicieusement (-eûz-mān), adv., maliciously, malignantly; archly, roguishly, slyly.
malicieu-x, -se, adj., malicious, malignant, mischievous; roguish, waggish, arch; spiteful, sly. Un enfant —; a roguish child.
*malignement, adv., malignantly, maliciously.
*malignité, n.f., malignity, malice; maliciousness.
malin, n.m., devil, evil spirit, fiend.
mali-n, *-gne, adj., malicious, mischievous, malignant; waggish, arch, roguish; shrewd; sly, knowing, clever, cunning. L’esprit —, le — esprit; the evil one, Satan. Un regard —; an arch look. Il est trop — pour se laisser attraper; he is too shrewd to be caught. Fièvre —gne; malignant fever.
mali-n, n.m., *-gne, n.f., malignant, malicious person; sly, shrewd, acute person; knavish person. C’est un —; he is a sly one, a knowing one.
maline, n.f., (nav.) spring-tide.