malignly

Example Sentences

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If you want to look at that malignly you certainly could do: they have made it so nobody can afford to write stories about them.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2015

Dear Worried, There’s something malignly brilliant about hiding sick fan obsession under cover of a thesis.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2012

He does for us as a man doth for himself; for he who sees the need and waits for asking, malignly sets himself already to denial.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Norton, Charles Eliot

It brought him firmly and sternly, but not malignly, into contact with the laws which he had broken, and whose penalties he had defied.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

He turned to �sop and addressed him, very pleasantly: "This, I think, will serve our purpose as well as any place in the world." �sop grinned malignly.

From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)