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

Claims about reckless constitutional damage have proved, however, a convenient front for motiveless malignity.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2020

What about that insistent crisis of national conscience “the American Negro”? And was all this due to something lodged deep in the system, something intrinsically American—or was it the singular malignity of Lyndon Johnson?

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

The regrettable catastrophe was due to the governess's disobedience and malignity.

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis