malignly

Example Sentences

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If you want to look at that malignly you certainly could do: they have made it so nobody can afford to write stories about them.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2015

Dear Worried, There’s something malignly brilliant about hiding sick fan obsession under cover of a thesis.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2012

"Perhaps," he muttered, leaning malignly towards her, "I could make myself even more obnoxious."

From The Zeppelin's Passenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

It brought him firmly and sternly, but not malignly, into contact with the laws which he had broken, and whose penalties he had defied.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

"You ought to show some interest," said my wife malignly.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin