malignity

Example Sentences

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Intimately acquainted with Richard’s malignity, these ruined royals know only too well the toll of his depraved machinations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

Decades of miserable history had to pass before the comedy buried within their malignity was revealed, like a vein of ore uncovered by a natural catastrophe.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

Their malignity flows from ambition, an irony that makes you want to avert your eyes, always an impediment to reading enjoyment.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2015

These letters thus afforded a carte blanche through which injustice could be perpetrated and malignity gratified to the fullest extent.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles