Thesaurus / malignant
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Castillo’s attempt to restructure the agency led to pushback from the rank and file, ranging from malignant noncompliance to blatant racism.
THE DHS SECRETARY COULD CHART A NEW PATH ON IMMIGRATION. WILL HE?ADAM GOODMANFEBRUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Similar mitochondrial gene losses are frequently seen in cancer cells, which is partly why malignant cells can often survive conditions that other cells wouldn’t.
THE MYSTERY OF MISTLETOE’S MISSING GENESCHRISTIE WILCOXDECEMBER 21, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
But in a malignant war there is injustice of ignobler kind at once to God and man, which must be stemmed for both their sakes.
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOU
Here the proud state that claimed him as her own offspring, met him with the injustice of a malignant step-dame.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
Mrs. Haight regarded the radiant young hostess with a malignant stare, prudently veiled by drooping lids.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
They were framed with malignant ingenuity, so as to leave no chance of escape save in open apostasy.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
Harry gave a disturbed, wondering look round, on seeing Edward's air of malignant satisfaction.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
The malignant deities were banished; the gods of light and warmth were dominant again; happiness and security had returned to man.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRIS
The mildest smallpox in one person can cause malignant smallpox in another, and vice versa.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEY
The terrible plague of the Black Death that swept over Europe from 1347 to 1350 was a malignant form of the bubonic plague.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEY
WORDS RELATED TO MALIGNANT
- bad
- baleful
- baneful
- corrupt
- corruptive
- dangerous
- deadly
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- evil
- fatal
- hurtful
- infective
- lethal
- malicious
- malignant
- mephitic
- miasmatic
- morbid
- mortal
- nocuous
- noisome
- noxious
- peccant
- pernicious
- pestiferous
- pestilential
- septic
- toxic
- toxicant
- toxiferous
- venomous
- vicious
- viperous
- virulent
- bad
- baleful
- baneful
- corrupt
- corruptive
- dangerous
- deadly
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- evil
- fatal
- hurtful
- infective
- lethal
- malicious
- malignant
- mephitic
- miasmatic
- morbid
- mortal
- nocuous
- noisome
- noxious
- peccant
- pernicious
- pestiferous
- pestilential
- poison
- septic
- toxic
- toxicant
- toxiferous
- venomous
- vicious
- viperous
- virulent
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- parlous
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
- angry
- atrocious
- bad
- baneful
- base
- beastly
- calamitous
- corrupt
- damnable
- depraved
- destructive
- disastrous
- execrable
- flagitious
- foul
- harmful
- hateful
- heinous
- hideous
- iniquitous
- injurious
- loathsome
- low
- maleficent
- malevolent
- malicious
- malignant
- nefarious
- no good
- obscene
- offensive
- pernicious
- poison
- rancorous
- reprobate
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- spiteful
- stinking
- ugly
- unpleasant
- unpropitious
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- wrathful
- wrong
- barbaric
- barbarous
- bestial
- brutal
- cannibalistic
- cold-blooded
- cruel
- devilish
- diabolical
- fell
- ferocious
- fiendish
- fierce
- grim
- hateful
- heartless
- implacable
- inhumane
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- merciless
- pitiless
- relentless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- savage
- truculent
- uncompassionate
- unfeeling
- unkind
- unrelenting
- unsympathetic
- vicious
- wolfish
- barbaric
- barbarous
- bestial
- brutal
- cannibalistic
- cold-blooded
- cruel
- devilish
- diabolical
- fell
- ferocious
- fiendish
- fierce
- grim
- hateful
- heartless
- implacable
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- merciless
- pitiless
- relentless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- truculent
- uncompassionate
- unfeeling
- unkind
- unrelenting
- unsympathetic
- vicious
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