malevolence

Example Sentences

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Key to the formula is the coy refusal to specify whether what we’re seeing is supernatural malevolence or simply really bad behavior.

From New York Times

This was because the theory presupposed a complex series of events coming together just so — secrecy, coordination, even deliberate malevolence, abetted by extreme sloppiness.

From Los Angeles Times

In the presence of a psychologically damaged child wife played by Mckenna Grace, she allows the malevolence and rage she's carrying around inside of her to flower.

From Salon

I also thought that reporting on the most effective teachers and schools would be more useful to readers than exposing corruption, incompetence and malevolence, the usual targets of my trade.

From Washington Post

To be realizing these things only now displays, if not malevolence, a lack of self-reflection.

From Washington Post