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malefic

[muh-lef-ik] / məˈlɛf ɪk /








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Giancarlo Esposito plays Beauty’s malefic father and Niecy Nash is her vocally exacting mother.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

Just Cause, Copycat and Dead Man Walking all exploit a dramatic tension that is both elemental and cost-efficient; it requires only a bare room and an actor able to summon some malefic grandeur.

From Time Magazine Archive

Images of corporal corruption -- of malefic birth and voracious organs -- stalk his They Came from Within, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners and Videodrome.

From Time Magazine Archive

In The Wild Bunch he played a punk gunslinger and in Three Amigos! the malefic El Guapo, who spits out the immortal line "A plethora of pinatas!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Sergeant Hicks said in a malefic whisper that seemed to hiss out of his bowels.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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