malignity

Example Sentences

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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

It would seem that the malignity of the troll is inhabiting the Snow Queen’s form.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2019

It bore the painting of a woman of strange beauty, but the dark eyes stared into vacancy with a cold malignity of expression.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2018

All the coarse races have one advantage over the Merino: they are less subject to the visitation of the hoof-ail, and when untreated, this disease spreads with less violence and malignity among them.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert