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
Any escape movie has a built-in spring with a doomsday clock ticking toward midnight as the underground heroes near their freedom while the forces of maleficent authority close in on them.
From Time • Oct. 11, 2012
But their Blindness, with Respect to these two Sorts of maleficent Beings, is inconceivable.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Vocabulary lists containing maleficent
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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