malevolence
Example Sentences
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He concedes, quite ruefully, that in his coverage of war-torn Syria he utterly misread the malevolence of Bashar al-Assad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
"He has shown a high level of malevolence, manipulation, and I would go so far as to say evil."
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
"It's not a sense of malevolence, but a huge sense of negligence and neglect and not following good practice," added Esme.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025
People who scored higher on the scale had greater control, which correlated with lower measures of hallucination severity and lower perceived malevolence and omnipotence of the voices.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025
She would talk of power as a yeast that could activate a malevolence that no force on earth could overcome once it had begun.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing malevolence
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
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And Then There Were None
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