All 10 Uses of
malignant
in
Crime and Punishment
- She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- "Sonia wants pomatum too," he said as he walked along the street, and he laughed malignantly—"such smartness costs money….†
Chpt 1.2
- Almost from the first, while he read the letter, Raskolnikov's face was wet with tears; but when he finished it, his face was pale and distorted and a bitter, wrathful and malignant smile was on his lips.†
Chpt 1.3
- "The thing is perfectly clear," he muttered to himself, with a malignant smile anticipating the triumph of his decision.†
Chpt 1.4
- A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred.†
Chpt 2.2
- Well, brother, to make a long story short, I was going in for a regular explosion here to uproot all malignant influences in the locality, but Pashenka won the day.†
Chpt 2.3
- After scanning Mr. Luzhin unceremoniously, Raskolnikov smiled malignantly, sank back on the pillow and stared at the ceiling as before.†
Chpt 2.5
- "All?" he asked, with a malignant grin.†
Chpt 3.3
- Raskolnikov smiled malignantly.†
Chpt 6.2
- The man, moreover, was very unpleasant, evidently depraved, undoubtedly cunning and deceitful, possibly malignant.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor