malevolent
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The malevolent attention paid to Black’s stilted pop song reached levels no internet phenomenon had ever encountered.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026
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
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
John thought for that moment that his father believed the words had come from him, his eyes were so wild and depthlessly malevolent, and his mouth was twisted into such a snarl of pain.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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