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mal-

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mal-/mal/

▶combining form

1 in an unpleasant degree: malodorous.

2 in a faulty or inadequate manner: malfunction.
■ in an improper manner: malpractice.

3 not: maladroit.

– origin from Fr. mal, from L. male ‘badly’.

'mal-' also found in these Oxford entries:

blackmail - Bokmål - dismal - grand mal - MAL - Mal. - malaise - malapert - malapropos - malaria - malathion - malcontent - mal de mer - malfeasance - malinger - mall - mole - mollymawk - nor- - petit mal - Riksmål

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