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malien: from Mali; Malian
malignement: malignantly
malignité: malice, spite; malignancy
malin: nocive, pernicious; malignant; malicious, sadistic (which likes to do or say hurtful things for fun); smart and quick-thinking, and often tricksterish; cunning, crafty; aggressive (of an animal); petulant (of a person)
malin: shrewd person, smart person
malin comme un singe: smart as a whip (very smart, very shrewd, very clever)
malin plaisir: great pleasure, great delight
maline: spring tide
malingre: delicate, fragile, puny
malingreux: a beggar who feigns to be afflicted with illness
malinké: Maninka
malintentionné: ill-intentioned
malique: malic
mallarméen: of Stéphane Mallarmé; Mallarméan
malle: large suitcase; trunk
malle-poste: mail coach
mallette: briefcase; schoolbag
mallophage: mallophagous
mallophage: mallophagan
malléabilisation: The act of making malleable
malléabiliser: to malleablize
malléabilité: malleability
malléable: malleable (able to be hammered into thin sheets); malleable, easily influenced
malléolaire: malleolar
malléole: malleolus
malléus: malleus (small bone in the middle ear)
malmener: to mistreat; to misuse, use incorrectly
malmignatte: malmignatte
malnutrition: malnutrition
malocclusion: malocclusion
malodorant: smelly, malodorous
malolactique: malolactic
malonique: malonic
malot: horsefly, gadfly
malotru: lout, boor
malotru: crude, boorish
malouin: of Saint-Malo; Falkland
malpighie: Any plant of the genus Malpighia
malpighien: Malpighian
malpoli: rude, impolite
malpoli: a rude person
malposition: malposition
malpropre: unclean
malpropre: unclean person
malproprement: uncleanly
malpropreté: uncleanliness, dirtiness, filthiness
malrucien: Malrucian
malsain: unhealthy, sick
malsonnant: offensive
malstrom: alternative spelling of maëlstrom
malséant: unseemly
malt: malt
maltage: malting (brewing process)
maltais: Maltese, the Maltese language
maltais: Maltese
maltase: maltase
malter: to malt
malterie: malthouse
malteur: maltster
malthusianisme: Malthusianism