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

Claims about reckless constitutional damage have proved, however, a convenient front for motiveless malignity.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2020

Some resistance was more overtly political; the critic Elaine Showalter, on Twitter, decried a plotline of the “saintly academic hero tormented by motiveless malignity of his despicable wife and other monsters.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

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