malignity

How To Use malignity In A Sentence

• The legal systems need for a motive results in generic stories of denial, revenge, or ‘motiveless malignity.’
• They told me likewise that the natives inhabited this barren spot of _Al Kossir_, as being the nearest harbour on the coast of the Red Sea to the Nile, whence provisions were transported; and that the inhabitants were satisfied with slight matts instead of roofs to their houses because not troubled with rain, and the matts were a sufficient protection from the sun: but made their walls of stone to defend themselves against the malignity and rapaciousness of the _Badwis_, a perverse people, void of all goodness, who often suddenly assaulted the place in hope of plunder, and frequently pillaged the caravans coming across from the Nile with provisions and other commodities. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
• There is malignity in the very air of this town, but it resides in more exalted vessels than Manfred. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
• He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity.
• Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design — Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2
• The little witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and.
• The little witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and ejaculating "wicked" as he went.
• He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity.
• A mean wretch that cannot vie with another in virtue will assail him with malignity: -- The narrow-minded envier will somehow manage to revile thee, who in thy presence might have the tongue of his utterance struck dumb. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
• Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson