malignant
Speech parts
1. malignant - Noun
2. malignant - Adjective
Meaning
Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.
One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
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At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it."
... of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
Nature ... has born and reared all men alike, and created them genuine brothers, not in mere name, but in very reality, though this kinship has been put to confusion by the triumph of malignant covetousness, which has wrought estrangement instead of affinity and enmity instead of friendship.
A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse.