malignity
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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
Some resistance was more overtly political; the critic Elaine Showalter, on Twitter, decried a plotline of the “saintly academic hero tormented by motiveless malignity of his despicable wife and other monsters.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
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
The existence of pure malignity must, it is true, be admitted; it may be partly explained as love of the "sensational," the novel; the full explanation must be left to the psychologist.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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
And then it was that once more the Old Man brought back the House to the temper from which it had been carried by the malignities of Mr. Chamberlain.
From Sketches in the House (1893) by T. P. O'Conner
All his little malignities, unless the epigram on Ward be his, are dead along with his little sentimentalities; while Byron’s Scourge hangs over his Memory.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
Those things that are harmful to man are called uses because they are of use to the evil in doing evil, and also are serviceable in absorbing malignities and thus also as remedies.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
Magnificent as was his defence, it availed him nothing against such a combination of malignities; even his few friends, losing courage, failed to support him.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
