malevolent

Example Sentences

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But he sure makes the strongest case for being the most malevolent, influential force there, a malignancy that poisons everything he touches.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

“Or someone who’s so malevolent that they don’t care.”

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

One can only wonder at the malevolent pleasure he would have felt at his Cubist masterworks ending up at the Met and not at the Tate or MoMA, which he had disdained for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

We know these animals are not malevolent, just trying to survive, and so the traps dispatch them with as little suffering as possible.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

Kay put on one of the left-hand gauntlets and called Cully from the perch—but Cully, with all his feathers close-set and malevolent, glared at him with a mad marigold eye and refused to come.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White