maleficent
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Their maleficent Ronettes angle was funny and self-aware, but utterly sincere about the true promise of Satanism — autonomy, knowledge, freedom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
“It’s really hard to predict all the maleficent uses,” said Giada Pistilli, principal ethicist at Hugging Face.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2023
We don’t see Maleficent before she becomes, well, maleficent.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2014
Any escape movie has a built-in spring with a doomsday clock ticking toward midnight as the underground heroes near their freedom while the forces of maleficent authority close in on them.
From Time ● Oct. 11, 2012
But they who abandon belief in maleficent demons and in witches as also, for this follows, in beneficent agents, such as angels, find themselves in a serious dilemma.
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
Vocabulary lists containing maleficent
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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