Word of the Day – Maledicent

• Adjecitve:  Maledicent
  1. addicted to speaking evil.
  2. slanderous
• Synonyms:
  1. slanderous
  2. reproachful
• Usage:
  1. In a 1995 speech on Senate decorum, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) denounced senators who accuse their colleagues of dissembling: “The use of such maledicent language on the Senate floor is quite out of place, and to accuse other senators of being liars is to skate on very, very thin ice, indeed.”
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