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
But Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” beats them all: a maleficent house, real human protagonists, everything half-seen or happening in the dark.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
The actor, more often cast as likable and light, makes fairy-tale Flynn maleficent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2014
Any escape movie has a built-in spring with a doomsday clock ticking toward midnight as the underground heroes near their freedom while the forces of maleficent authority close in on them.
From Time ● Oct. 11, 2012
This fate may be beneficent or maleficent, a guardian angel or a possessive fiend; or it may, in appearance at least, combine both functions.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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