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Synonyms for malignity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : muh-lig-ni-tee
Phonetic Transcription : məˈlɪg nɪ ti

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Définition of malignity

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French maligneté, from Latin malignitas "ill-will, spite," from malignus (see malign (adj.)).
  • noun malevolence
Example sentences :
  • It has been the result of thoughtlessness, rather than of malignity.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Malignity is seldom at a loss for some blemish to point out.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 » by Various
  • They are the product of malignity so evident that it defeats itself.
  • Extract from : « The Scottish Reformation » by Alexander F. Mitchell
  • It was his malignity that poisoned her last years, which, but for him, would have been happy.
  • Extract from : « The Plum Tree » by David Graham Phillips
  • He went back to his first conceit and his voice rasped with malignity.
  • Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace
  • They attribute a malignity to him seldom to be found even in mankind.
  • Extract from : « The Gods are Athirst » by Anatole France
  • Heaven knows to what lengths their malignity will then carry them.
  • Extract from : « Hortense, Makers of History Series » by John S. C. Abbott
  • He brings up into the imagination the malignity and hopelessness of the damned.
  • Extract from : « In Mesopotamia » by Martin Swayne

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