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Malay(an)
Middle English < Old French, representing mal adv. (< Latin male badly, ill) and adj. (< Latin malus bad)
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To detain Hardrada, a charge of mal- appropriation, whether of pay or of booty, was brought against him.
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The Earl already began to tremble at the probable consequences of his mal- adroitness.
From History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585e-86a by Motley, John Lothrop
Bréard, the Comptroller-General, for a consideration winked at these mal- practices, and from a poor man when he landed in Canada, he returned to France in affluent circumstances.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
Scott Mason had made enough of a stink about the erased tapes that they could no longer hide under the cover of computer mal- functions.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
To raise = lev‑i; suf -iĝ makes it intransitive; pref. mal- denotes the opposite; ending -o makes it a noun. 2Where he was going.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
“This is Ratwin. She’s our navigator. Ratwin, this is Christopher and Mal. They’re our uninvited stowaways.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
“She en’t normal, Mal. She en’t proper human. See them butterflies? Well, which one’s her dæmon?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
“We got to have a fire, Mal. We got to clean her, and we got to feed her.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
“I’ll go with Mal. I’ll go to this Senate.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
“I don’t know. I’ve known people sent there, and I would not care to meet them again. It’s an ugly place, Mal. You stay close, you understand?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Thanks to Jackson’s MAL technology, music lovers will enjoy sizzling remixes of the songs on the "Red" and the "Blue" LPs, as well as the addition of several new tunes to round out the collections.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2023
As soon as she could, Kinley asked to be readmitted to the MAL program at CityU and started classes again.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022
The 2006 permit had been awarded to the company, WWF said, even though MAL Rt had been fined several times until 2003 for breaching the permissible levels of red sludge in its reservoirs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
Zoltan Bakonyi, the head of MAL Zrt, remained in police custody pending a court decision on his arrest.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2010
Also on Monday, Prime Minister Orban told parliament that the government has begun the process of placing MAL Zrt "under state control and its assets under state closure."
From Time ● Oct. 11, 2010
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