malignant spirit
Example Sentences
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Alongside his wife, Lorraine, he works as a paranormal investigator, and this is hardly his first tête-à-tête with a malignant spirit.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2021
The whole campaign which had terminated so gloriously, was criticised in the most unjust and malignant spirit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
But, though the natives have never discovered this for themselves, they do not, as in other diseases, attempt to explain yaws as the work of a malignant spirit.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil
This spectre was supposed to be an old man, or malignant spirit, who directed, and ruled over, the mountain torrents.
From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Owen, Elias
Every slight shown him, each new instance of coldness or aversion of the neighborhood, gave the old man a diabolical pleasure, and seemed to revive his youth in the exercise of a malignant spirit.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
