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

Imps have their freakish wickedness in them to kindle detective vision: malignly do they love to uncover ridiculousness in imposing figures.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

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 was all perfectly absurd, for why on earth should an ugly house, some overgrown trees, and a couple of ill-favoured servants so malignly affect him?

From Huntingtower by Buchan, John