All 3 Uses of
malignant
in
The Fountainhead
- An unlighted, unpaved stretch of waterfront lay before him, sagging structures and empty spaces of sky, warehouses, a crooked cornice hanging somewhere over a window with a malignant light.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- Roark saw a grimy desolation of tenements, sagging hulks of what had been red brick, crooked doorways, rotting boards, strings of gray underclothing in narrow air shafts, not as a sign of life, but as a malignant growth of decomposition.†
Chpt 4.9
- Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence.†
Chpt 4.11
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor