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malevolent
/məˈlɛvələnt/
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What does malevolent mean?
adjective
- Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
- Having an evil or harmful influence.
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IPA pronunciation
/məˈlɛvələnt/
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Morel never in his life played cards, considering them as having some occult, malevolent power—“the devil’s pictures,” he called them!
Now I recalled every detail of that meeting and in my mind gave him the most malevolent and bitter replies.
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‘I would umbly ask, sir,’ returned Uriah, with a jerk of his malevolent head, ‘for leave to write again to mother.’
It required the dictation of the vindictive and malevolent Fenayrou to crystallise her hatred of Aubert into a deliberate participation in his murder.
It was not in places of general resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst offer him injury.