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mal
(Adverb, Noun) "badly;" "bad," "evil"
12th cent. From Latin
male
"badly," from
malus
"bad" (see
malo
).
Indo-European
Romance
Portuguese
mal
, Catalan
mal
, French
mal
, Italian
male
, Sardinian
mabi