All 3 Uses of
malignant
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Though nobody spoke to him of the affair after class he could feel about him a vague general malignant joy.†
Chpt 2 *
- While he was still repeating the CONFITEOR amid the indulgent laughter of his hearers and while the scenes of that malignant episode were still passing sharply and swiftly before his mind he wondered why he bore no malice now to those who had tormented him.†
Chpt 2
- God had allowed him to see the hell reserved for his sins: stinking, bestial, malignant, a hell of lecherous goatish fiends.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor