malefic
Example Sentences
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Giancarlo Esposito plays Beauty’s malefic father and Niecy Nash is her vocally exacting mother.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
By the end, with Reinhold's malefic help, she and Franz will have become the secret agents of their own destruction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Images of corporal corruption -- of malefic birth and voracious organs -- stalk his They Came from Within, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners and Videodrome.
From Time Magazine Archive
In The Wild Bunch he played a punk gunslinger and in Three Amigos! the malefic El Guapo, who spits out the immortal line "A plethora of pinatas!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Sergeant Hicks said in a malefic whisper that seemed to hiss out of his bowels.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
