"malveillant" meaning in French

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Adjective

IPA: /mal.vɛ.jɑ̃/, /mal.ve.jɑ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-0x010C-malveillant.wav Forms: malveillante [feminine], malveillants [masculine, plural], malveillantes [feminine, plural]
Etymology: From mal (“bad”) + veuillant (archaic present participle of vouloir; unrelated to veiller). Calque of Latin malevolēns. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|mal|veuillant|t1=bad}} mal (“bad”) + veuillant, {{calque|fr|la|malevolēns}} Calque of Latin malevolēns Head templates: {{fr-adj}} malveillant (feminine malveillante, masculine plural malveillants, feminine plural malveillantes)
  1. malicious, malevolent Categories (topical): Personality Derived forms: logiciel malveillant, malveillance, programme malveillant
    Sense id: en-malveillant-fr-adj-OqH~0h4U Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "malveillante",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malveillants",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malveillantes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "bienveillant"
        }
      ],
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
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        },
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        },
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            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        {
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        },
        {
          "word": "malveillance"
        },
        {
          "word": "programme malveillant"
        }
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        ],
        [
          "malevolent",
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        ]
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  ],
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mal.ve.jɑ̃/"
    },
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "word": "programme malveillant"
    }
  ],
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    },
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      },
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "malveillante",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malveillants",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malveillantes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "bienveillant"
        }
      ],
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        "French compound terms",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French terms calqued from Latin",
        "French terms derived from Latin",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
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        ],
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        ]
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    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mal.ve.jɑ̃/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "malveillant"
}

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