Both Uses of
malignant
in
War and Peace
- Who asked you to?" shouted Natasha, raising herself on the sofa and looking malignantly at Marya Dmitrievna.†
Chpt 8
- From that day, as the doctor expressed it, the wasting fever assumed a malignant character, but what the doctor said did not interest Natasha, she saw the terrible moral symptoms which to her were more convincing.†
Chpt 12 *
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor