Both Uses of
malignant
in
The Call of the Wild
- Billee's one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.†
Chpt 2 *
- On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no…†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor