All 4 Uses of
malignant
in
Catch-22
- There were many strange things taking place, but the strangest of all, to Clevinger, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred of the members of the Action Board, glazing their unforgiving expressions with a hard, vindictive surface, glowing in their narrowed eyes malignantly like inextinguishable coals.†
Chpt 8
- They had hated him before he came, hated him while he was there, hated him after he left, carried their hatred for him away malignantly like some pampered treasure after they separated from each other and went to their solitude.†
Chpt 8 *
- The colonel punished him sadistically with a long, glowering, malignant, hateful, silent stare.†
Chpt 19
- He had the most malignant manner I ever saw.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor