maleficent
Example Sentences
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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
But the more refined Greeks believed for a long time that the moon was bewitched, and that the magicians made it descend from heaven to put into the herbs a certain maleficent froth.
From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
