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)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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The Lebanese must resist this malicious plan, maintain unity and work to free their country from Israel`s clutches.
Dawn Editorials —
Lebanon talks
— 2026-04-16
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Bias does not need malicious intent to become structural.
Dawn Editorials —
Automated inequality
— 2026-03-08
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Those who claim `ownership` of Karachi merely wish to see it freed of the malicious systems that have entrapped it in the cycle of poor governance and urban decay.
Dawn Editorials —
Tug of war
— 2026-02-24
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This necessitates the creation of safeguards that restrict AI`s malicious use; the safeguards would include secure permission systems.
Dawn Editorials —
No ethics in AI
— 2026-02-10
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Where content was defamatory, demonstrably false or malicious, civil defamation proceedings or narrow criminal charges could have addressed the harm without invoking the most extreme state instruments.
Dawn Editorials —
Extreme move
— 2026-01-04
Synonyms
Malignant, Nasty, Spiteful
Antonyms
Aiding, Assisting, Decent
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