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malignity
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What does malignity mean?
noun
- The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
- A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
- A group of goblins.
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Their offences at first were those of laziness, carelessness, and impulse, rather than of malignity or ungoverned viciousness.
It would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity--of anger and hellish rage--which came over the Count’s face.
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Out of this mixture of "possession" within the convent and malignity without it came a charge that Grandier had bewitched the young women.
Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.
The little witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out, praying, and ejaculating “wicked” as he went.