Sample Sentences for
malevolent
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  • Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.  (source)
    malevolent = appearing to wish evil to others
  • There is something disquieting about this Gothic, overgrown landscape. It feels more malevolent than other, more remote corners of the state I know,  (source)
    malevolent = dangerous or evil
  • Christy and Megan, two girls who had their own club called the GGP (whatever that meant), were whispering over on the other side of the room and casting malevolent looks in Mary Lou's direction.  (source)
    malevolent = evil
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  • Leo wasn't sure, but something about this storm seemed conscious, malevolent—like it was intentionally slamming them.  (source)
    malevolent = wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  • A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.  (source)
    malevolence = an evil or harmful influence
  • His dark eyes flashed malevolently as he pushed me in front of him through the crowd.  (source)
    malevolently = with a desire to hurt
  • I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.  (source)
    malevolent = harmful
  • Mr. Justice Wargrave looked at him with active malevolence.  (source)
    malevolence = wishing evil to others
  • Dana grinned malevolently. ... Kneeling on Roy's chest, he hauled back to hit him again.  (source)
    malevolently = with the desire to hurt
  • she shouted and gave him a look so malevolent Denver touched her arm.  (source)
    malevolent = evil
  • They were the objects of her constant suspicion and malevolence.  (source)
    malevolence = the desire to do evil or to hurt others
  • He caught Bolivar staring at him malevolently.  (source)
    malevolently = with the desire to do evil or to hurt others
  • Like some malevolent clockwork toy she had been wound up and set in motion...  (source)
    malevolent = exerting an evil or harmful influence
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