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

"Perhaps," he muttered, leaning malignly towards her, "I could make myself even more obnoxious."

From The Zeppelin's Passenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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

His spiteful eyes grinned at the white fluid malignly, as if whatever it emblemed of purity, of simplicity, exasperated him.

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)