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
What about that insistent crisis of national conscience “the American Negro”? And was all this due to something lodged deep in the system, something intrinsically American—or was it the singular malignity of Lyndon Johnson?
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
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
Why did you leave out that portion in which Dr. Francis says that Cheetham with settled malignity wrote the life of Paine?
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
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
"What malignities and slanders," exclaims Diaz, "were now circulated against Cortez by his enemies in Mexico!"
From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Considering his bodily infirmities, his energies and his malignities, which were many and active, were marvellously little abated by time.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The cabal which gathered head against Bajazet could only whisper its malignities when Mithridate appeared.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
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
