maleficent

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“It’s really hard to predict all the maleficent uses,” said Giada Pistilli, principal ethicist at Hugging Face.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2023

The actor, more often cast as likable and light, makes fairy-tale Flynn maleficent.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2014

We don’t see Maleficent before she becomes, well, maleficent.

From New York Times • May 29, 2014

We hope they’ll be enlivened by that maleficent spirit, the genius Loki.

From Time • Nov. 6, 2013

Yet the Paternoster ruby had been potent to project its maleficent influence from the depths of its watery grave, and shape the destinies of the living.

From The Paternoster Ruby by Walk, Charles Edmonds