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malignity

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What does malignity mean?

noun

  1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
  2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
  3. 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.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
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.
Bram StokerDraculaProject Gutenberg ebook #345
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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.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
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.
Emily BrontëWuthering HeightsProject Gutenberg ebook #768