I.foul-mouthed, abusive, scurrilous, slanderous (class.): “conviciator maledicus,” Cic. Mur. 6, 13: “homines,” Auct. Her. 2, 8, 12: “maledicum esse in aliquem,” Quint. 4, 1, 10. —Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things: “civitas,” Cic. Fl. 28, 48: “lingua,” Val. Max. 8, 9, 2: “sermo,” id. 7, 2, 6.—Hence, adv.: mă-lĕdĭcē , in a slanderous manner, abusively, scurrilously: “maledice contumelioseque dicere,” Cic. Off. 1, 37, 134; so, “maledice ac maligne loqui,” Liv. 45, 39, 16.
mălĕdĭcus , a, um, adj. maledico,