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

It would seem that the malignity of the troll is inhabiting the Snow Queen’s form.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019

It bore the painting of a woman of strange beauty, but the dark eyes stared into vacancy with a cold malignity of expression.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2018

It was a common thing, for days and weeks, to see the names of Broadhead and Beesly coupled with ostentatious malignity in the leading columns of London newspapers.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

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

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

Now what we especially need at present for educational purposes is to know, not the anatomy of plants, but their biography—how and where they live and die, their tempers, benevolences, malignities, distresses, and virtues.

From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin

Magnificent as was his defence, it availed him nothing against such a combination of malignities; even his few friends, losing courage, failed to support him.

From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

And then it was that once more the Old Man brought back the House to the temper from which it had been carried by the malignities of Mr. Chamberlain.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by T. P. O'Conner