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unmalicious

  • a word derived from malicious.
    malicious
    adjective
    full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful.

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His staging is, more subtly and powerfully, a sad, unsettling suggestion of our unmalicious but all-too-willing forgetfulness.

From New York Times Jul. 8, 2022

"Well, he's had enough of them," his friend replied, and the two of them sniggered together in an unmalicious, thigh-slapping, good ol' boyish sort of way.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2010

What they cannot say, however, is whether the working conditions under protest were the result of deliberate policy or middle-management bungling of an unmalicious kind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon Cookery M. Rouquet is edifying; and concerning the eighteenth-century physician, with his tye-wig and gilt-head cane, sprightly and not unmalicious.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson

Among the sharpest of Douglas Jerrold's unmalicious witticisms was his saying, that Eve ate the apple that she might dress.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various