The Only Use of
malignant
in
Animal Farm
- For a long time there had been rumors — circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy — that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.†
p. 139..2
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor