malevolence

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[ UK /məlˈɛvələns/ ]
NOUN
  1. wishing evil to others
  2. the quality of threatening evil
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How To Use malevolence In A Sentence

  • The tsunami has evoked much commentary on the ‘meaning’ of the deaths of innocents and the malevolence of nature.
  • Joining her was mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, with a delightfully oleaginous rendering of Clytemnestra that brought the bloodletting adulteress to new heights of malevolence. 'Elektra' Electrifies in Madrid
  • It describes an implosive economy of violence in which only an outsider could intervene: it is an economy running on poverty and isolation (not an ontological ‘male’ malevolence).
  • Xavius had been reborn as a satyr—the first of the goatlike monsters now so long the enemies of the night elves—and his malevolence had only grown with his new, hideous aspect. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
  • Seen this close, the swarms exuded an unmistakable sense of menace, almost malevolence. PREY
  • But while Bill Alexander's new production has a fine, sombre, subfusc dignity, there were times when I guiltily hungered for a little more playful malevolence.
  • With a malevolence smile, she opened her desk drawer and pulled out a piece of parchment and a feather.
  • But no mention of the nastiness, sheer malevolence and bullying of the Republican Party and its cheerleaders - like those who refer to Barack Hussein Obama, but not John Sydney McCain - because they want to suggest the Democrat's "alienness" without being quite that explicit ... On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Thus, in their enthusiasm -- which is only a minor madness -- whether the Hindoo bramin or the Spanish bigot, the English roundhead or the follower of the "only true faith" at Mecca, be understood, it is but a word and a blow -- though the word be a hurried prayer to the God of their adoration, and the blow be aimed with all the malevolence of hell at the bosom of a fellow-creature. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
  • A plan formulated inside his mind and his eyes filled with hatred and malevolence.
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