maleficent
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“It’s really hard to predict all the maleficent uses,” said Giada Pistilli, principal ethicist at Hugging Face.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2023
The actor, more often cast as likable and light, makes fairy-tale Flynn maleficent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2014
We don’t see Maleficent before she becomes, well, maleficent.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2014
Hiddleston, known to Marvel fans as the brooding, maleficent Loki in the Thor and Avengers movies, stepped into the Adam role when Michael Fassbender stepped out.
From Time ● Apr. 9, 2014
At other times the wise woman gave a perfectly recognizable description of the guilty one and offered remedies that would nullify her maleficent influences.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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