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

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

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 Transcendentalist might easily become an enthusiast from excess of faith; but a fanatic, with a tinge of melancholy in his disposition, a drop of malignity in his blood, he could not be.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks