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malevolent

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1. malevolent - Adjective

2. malevolent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. Willa Cather

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Epicurus

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual. Gough Whitlam

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions... the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. Stephenie Meyer

Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader. John Updike

A busybody is always malevolent. Latin Proverb

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