malignity

Intimately acquainted with Richard’s malignity, these ruined royals know only too well the toll of his depraved machinations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2024

But reflecting on Onfroy’s legacy also requires a frank confrontation with the malignity he inflicted.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2018

Their malignity flows from ambition, an irony that makes you want to avert your eyes, always an impediment to reading enjoyment.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2015

They have been denounced by every epithet that malignity can coin.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

The believer in these processes thinks that certain acts possess particular efficacies beyond those evident to his observation and reason; and that peculiar malignities are to be expected as the consequence of certain other acts.

From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe

Whatever may have been the malignities laid to the charge of the later middle ages, it is certain that the Englishman was on the whole of a reverential type.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

Ill-natured tittle-tattle, which should have been instantly nipped in the bud, had been allowed to assume disgraceful proportions; and the Throne itself had become involved in the personal malignities of the palace.

From Queen Victoria by Giles Lytton Strachey

Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vices and malignities.

From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War by Louis Raemaekers