malignity
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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
It is impossible to conceive how human nature can become so frightfully perverted as to pursue a fellow-man with the malignity of a fiend, simply because he is good, just, and generous.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
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
"What malignities and slanders," exclaims Diaz, "were now circulated against Cortez by his enemies in Mexico!"
From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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
All his little malignities, unless the epigram on Ward be his, are dead along with his little sentimentalities; while Byron’s Scourge hangs over his Memory.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
