malignant spirit
Example Sentences
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Alongside his wife, Lorraine, he works as a paranormal investigator, and this is hardly his first tête-à-tête with a malignant spirit.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2021
However bad, however depraved the human mind, it still leans to mercy: the power to dispose of another man’s life is generally sufficient for the most malignant spirit in its thirst for vengeance.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
Every slight shown him, each new instance of coldness or aversion of the neighborhood, gave the old man a diabolical pleasure, and seemed to revive his youth in the exercise of a malignant spirit.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
The whole campaign which had terminated so gloriously, was criticised in the most unjust and malignant spirit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
A change came over the face of Haines—one that transformed his rather handsome features into those of a malignant spirit.
From Raiding with Morgan by Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald)
