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malevolent

[muh-lev-uh-luhnt] / məˈlɛv ə lənt /


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The production, helmed by the company’s artistic director, Eric Tucker, who also plays that malevolent master manipulator, Iago, matches the minimal cast with a scrappy, simple production.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

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

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

“What’s fun about Laura’s perspective is Cherry seems completely unhinged and that there’s a real malevolent undertone to her behavior,” Cooke says.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 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

Now she saw a larger, more malevolent world outside her own.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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