Malicious vs Lascivious - What's the difference?
malicious | lascivious |
Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
spiteful and deliberately harmful
Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
As adjectives the difference between malicious and lascivious
is that malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite while lascivious is wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.malicious
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.