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
An indefinable presentiment of evil was upon him; the air was charged with some awful and maleficent influence, of which the convulsion of nature seemed a fit harbinger.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
Vocabulary lists containing maleficent
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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