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

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

In Paris it broke out with extreme malignity in March, 1832, and soon raged there with greater virulence than it had exhibited in any other city in Europe except St. Petersburg.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

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

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

Considering his bodily infirmities, his energies and his malignities, which were many and active, were marvellously little abated by time.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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

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