malignity

Example Sentences

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Intimately acquainted with Richard’s malignity, these ruined royals know only too well the toll of his depraved machinations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

Decades of miserable history had to pass before the comedy buried within their malignity was revealed, like a vein of ore uncovered by a natural catastrophe.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

It bore the painting of a woman of strange beauty, but the dark eyes stared into vacancy with a cold malignity of expression.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2018

In short, the only exception which could be taken to an accusing witness was malignity.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles