malicious vs malevolent vs malignant
Definitions
adjective
- having the nature of or resulting from malice
Examples
I open my eyes and there are her deep, cold, violet, malicious eyes, staring at me.
Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass.
This implementation of the principle of least privilege helps contain security breaches arising from buggy code, malicious code, user error and malicious users.
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adjective
- having or exerting a malignant influence
- wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred
Examples
Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion.
The architectonics of the sculpted locks, the author argues, augment their power to fend off sorcery and other malevolent forces.
Still and all, when I say there is something "insidious" about the taste of Dutch Coca-Cola she hs to ask what insidious means -- she knows what it means, but she just has to check, because she doesn't understand why I would choose such a word -- I revised to "malevolent" -- to describe such a benign thing.
Definitions
adjective
- dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
Examples
These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
Additionally, a polyclonal intracerebral inflammatory response may precede the proliferation of monoclonal malignant lymphoid cells.
Prostate cancer is a common malignant tumor in male genitourinary system, it morbidity is increasing in recent years.
