malefic
Example Sentences
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Giancarlo Esposito plays Beauty’s malefic father and Niecy Nash is her vocally exacting mother.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
By the end, with Reinhold's malefic help, she and Franz will have become the secret agents of their own destruction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both groups were deprived of the intelligence of the '30s, the malefic grandeur of the '40s.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Poltergeist, Carol Anne talks to "the TV people," and they talk back; they even play with her, to malefic effect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sergeant Hicks said in a malefic whisper that seemed to hiss out of his bowels.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
