malevolent
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The writer Octavio Paz, the Mexican Nobel laureate, denounced Malinche as a kind of malevolent Eve whose submission to Cortés forever defiled Mexico’s mixed identity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026
It’s like a malevolent Ouroboros, where we can’t tell which is the head and which the tail, or which end is swallowing the other.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
Despite its critics, nationalism isn’t always a malevolent force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 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
This giant was another child of Gaea—a creature of the earth so malevolent and powerful, he radiated his own gravitational field.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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