malignity
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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
It would seem that the malignity of the troll is inhabiting the Snow Queen’s form.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019
Their malignity flows from ambition, an irony that makes you want to avert your eyes, always an impediment to reading enjoyment.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2015
In Paris it broke out with extreme malignity in March, 1832, and soon raged there with greater virulence than it had exhibited in any other city in Europe except St. Petersburg.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Now what we especially need at present for educational purposes is to know, not the anatomy of plants, but their biography—how and where they live and die, their tempers, benevolences, malignities, distresses, and virtues.
From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin
Whatever may have been the malignities laid to the charge of the later middle ages, it is certain that the Englishman was on the whole of a reverential type.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
Those things that are harmful to man are called uses because they are of use to the evil in doing evil, and also are serviceable in absorbing malignities and thus also as remedies.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
Magnificent as was his defence, it availed him nothing against such a combination of malignities; even his few friends, losing courage, failed to support him.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
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