malevolent

Example Sentences

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Unlike standard mainstream superhero fare that features a villain with clearly malevolent intentions, the show “asks the audience to make up their own minds,” says Clarke.

From Los Angeles Times

But Vaillant also characterizes the wildfire as a “regional apocalypse” and imminent flashover—the point of spontaneous combustion in an enclosed space—as “a malevolent entity from another dimension breaking through to this one.”

From Scientific American

This show makes video game development wildly entertaining by coding it with eccentric characters, purely fun comedy and a dash of innocently malevolent behavior.

From Los Angeles Times

“It is very much a product of Museveni’s malevolent political genius.”

From New York Times

The book spends much of its time trapped in the drowsy, malevolent bardo of its heroine’s increasingly sinister confinement, every hour a slow drip of impending calamity.

From New York Times