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Malicious vs Ill-disposed - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between malicious and ill-disposed

is that malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite while ill-disposed is not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.

malicious

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
  • spiteful and deliberately harmful
    • He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

    Synonyms

    * malevolent * evil * See also

    Derived terms

    * maliciously * maliciousness * malicious mischief

    ill-disposed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.
  • * 2009 , Patrick Malcolmson & Richard Myers, The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada , University of Toronto Press (2009), ISBN 9781442600478, page 61:
    • And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.
  • * 2011 , Garrett G. Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games , Cambridge University Press (2011), ISBN 9780521196161, page 252:
    • The crowd may generally have been ill-disposed toward arena performers, but that could change depending on what was going on at any given time.
  • * 2011 , Tony MacLachlan, We Spared Not the Capital of America: War Between Britain and the United States 1812-15 , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456781859, page 241:
    • As a man of Eastern Tennessee, he also felt ill-disposed to co-operate with the men from the west.