malignity

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

What about that insistent crisis of national conscience “the American Negro”? And was all this due to something lodged deep in the system, something intrinsically American—or was it the singular malignity of Lyndon Johnson?

From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017

If Ferdinand represents human malignity and Goya its frailty then Arrieta stands for man’s innate goodness.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2015

I am not prepared even to resent the malignity of your remark that the last third is not the best.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James

A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

The cabal which gathered head against Bajazet could only whisper its malignities when Mithridate appeared.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse

Whatever may have been the malignities laid to the charge of the later middle ages, it is certain that the Englishman was on the whole of a reverential type.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

The believer in these processes thinks that certain acts possess particular efficacies beyond those evident to his observation and reason; and that peculiar malignities are to be expected as the consequence of certain other acts.

From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe

Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vices and malignities.

From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War by Louis Raemaekers