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UK
/məlˈɛvələns/
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NOUN
- wishing evil to others
- the quality of threatening evil
How To Use malevolence In A Sentence
- At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
- Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The answer is yes, I do believe in benevolence and malevolence as being a part of mans nature, I think where we differ, is the belief in the architect of nature and whether the formation of the natural world including the physique was a guided or a random process. Child Abuse Alert
- The sheer malevolence she saw there brought back memories she thought she had forgotten. YELLOW BIRD
- A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
- Shelob, Smaug, the Balrog ... in their astounding names, the fearful verve of their descriptions, their various undomesticated malevolence, these creatures are utterly embedded in our world-view. Archive 2009-06-01
- Or it might well be that the physician was not careful then, as at all other times, to hide the malevolence with which he looked upon his victim.
- They have malevolence in their darkest thoughts.
- These two were regarding him with something that felt like malevolence. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
- His clashes with Gerhard Siegel's penetrating Mime, grotesquely hunchbacked and absurd in the extremity of his fawning and malevolence, took on a broad, cartoonish humor that worked. Of Gods And Monsters