Noun
The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
Virulence; deadly quality.
Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe last speech, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful! Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendancy, as they affect Ireland; or of Indianism, as they affect these countries, and as they affect Asia; or of Jacobinism, as they affect all Europe, and the state of human society itself. The last is the greatest evil. Edmund Burke
We fancy frequently that we have no grudge but against the men, when indeed our malignity is owing to their places : persons in great posts never yet enjoyed them with the good liking of the world, which only begins to do them justice when they are out of place. Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell! Anthony Trollope
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Sylvia Plath
Has he therefore outwitted the law? Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson