malevolent
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Despite its critics, nationalism isn’t always a malevolent force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025
We know these animals are not malevolent, just trying to survive, and so the traps dispatch them with as little suffering as possible.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025
Nothing that’s happened on any of the network’s shows in the last decade has come close to matching the unconsciously malevolent nonsense of Bravo’s late-aughts one-season-wonders.
From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025
"Creating the space where a malevolent actor could have done almost whatever they wanted."
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025
There are also immaterial entities—the spirits of the dead, and friendly and malevolent beings, the kind that we today call demons, fairies and angels.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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