malevolently

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In this way, human bias - the automatic and understandable assumption that your friends and colleagues are not acting malevolently - would be less likely to be a factor in management decision-making.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2023

Tolkien’s fantasy epic “The Lord of the Rings,” whose gaze lingers malevolently over the lands of Middle-earth.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

Commercial speech is degrading our public and private lives, not malevolently or conspiratorially but for the most part mindlessly.

From Salon • May 29, 2022

Through a spokesman, Peters denied dealing in improper benefits and his representatives wrote that one of the key pieces of evidence presented by Nigerian investigators is a “concoction malevolently contrived.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021

And his mind dwelt malevolently on a recent interview he had had with a suave personage in that very street.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie