Synonyms for malignancy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : muh-lig-nuh n-see

Phonetic Transcription : məˈlɪg nən si

Définition of malignancy

Origin : c.1600, "malignant nature," from malignant + -cy. Of growths, tumors, from 1680s.

noun virulence

Example sentences :

What could save him if I disappointed the malignancy of Madame.
Extract from : « The Bronze Hand » by Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

Malignancy was rampant and Arnold was pursued with great bitterness.
Extract from : « Washington and his Comrades in Arms » by George Wrong

In poetry the characteristic most often attributed to a snake is malignancy.
Extract from : « Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning » by Robert Browning

She did not see his face change and contort itself into malignancy.
Extract from : « The Soul Stealer » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

If she was as good as she is bad there would be nothing to say against her; but her malignancy is intolerable.
Extract from : « The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adlade de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr » by Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d Orlans; Marie Adelaide, of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy; and Madame de Maintenon

It stood for something, in each of them, which gnawed their minds like a malignancy.
Extract from : « Doom of the House of Duryea » by Earl Peirce

Of the malignancy of their wit, we must preserve one specimen.
Extract from : « Calamities and Quarrels of Authors » by Isaac Disraeli

The malignancy of publishers, however, could not turn me back.
Extract from : « Margaret Ogilvy » by J. M. Barrie

But the negro spoke sullenly, and there was still a sparkle of malignancy in his look.
Extract from : « Cudjo's Cave » by J. T. Trowbridge

Deep the malignancy; but deeper yet the efficacy of Mida's vow.
Extract from : « Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) » by James S. De Benneville

Antonyms for malignancy

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