malevolence
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For most, the games they’re making — with grandiose names like Rise of the Gods, Artificial Malevolence and Tactical Tech among them — are their first attempts and labors of love.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2020
He dangles from familiar hang-ups: a nagging wife whom he calls Her Malevolence, a job about which he feels guilty, and a loathing for the contemporary English way of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malevolence to the clergy is seldom at a great distance from irreverence of religion, and Dryden affords no exception to this observation.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
Malevolence is a personal and interested sentiment, which makes us wish evil to others, because they are an obstacle to us.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
The reformatory repeats the prison chaplain's verdict, "weakness, not wickedness," in its own way: "Malevolence does not characterize the criminal, but aversion to continuous labor."
From A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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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