malevolent

Example Sentences

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Had it heeded a more malevolent sensibility than an instinct to overexplain, it might have been more ruthlessly effective at yucking our yum for road trips.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The writer Octavio Paz, the Mexican Nobel laureate, denounced Malinche as a kind of malevolent Eve whose submission to Cortés forever defiled Mexico’s mixed identity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

They found that when a phishing pop-up had clear malevolent telltales, like misspellings, the phone and PC users tended to avoid it at similar rates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

We know these animals are not malevolent, just trying to survive, and so the traps dispatch them with as little suffering as possible.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

But then the wagon comes to a stop, and the creature gives me a last malevolent look before disappearing with a dissatisfied hiss.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir