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maleficent
/məˈlɛfɪsənt/
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What does maleficent mean?
adjective
- Harmful or evil in intent or effect.
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That aspect of the sky which they now regard as disagreeable they then beheld as maleficent.
But they have not regarded her even with that interest which is called benevolent because it is not actively maleficent.
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These noisy and maleficent crowds, the kernel of all insurrections, from antiquity to our own times, are the only crowds known to the orator.
In short, he does evil with all the characteristics of a nature deliberately maleficent, and all the more wicked because, when it so wishes, it knows how to do good gratuitously also and is capable of self-sacrifice; wherefore it has been said of it, with as much reason as depth: Homo homini lupus, vel deus.