dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

malignant
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; ... the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive.  (source)
    malignant = evil
  • Gey and his wife, Margaret, had spent the last three decades working to grow malignant cells outside the body, hoping to use them to find cancer's cause and cure.  (source)
    malignant = growing in a harmful, uncontrolled manner
  • He hit it [the shark] without hope but with resolution and complete malignancy.  (source)
    malignancy = intent to harm
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 5 word variations
  • At a guess he would have said that it was the body of a man of sixty, suffering from some malignant disease.  (source)
    malignant = harmful
  • How that stupid, dull Englishman ever came to be admitted within the intellectual circle which revolved round "the cleverest woman in Europe," as her friends unanimously called her, no one ventured to guess—golden key is said to open every door, asserted the more malignantly inclined.†  (source)
  • Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.†  (source)
  • Didn't know about her miscarriages, or that she'd lost her husband and mother to the creep of malignancies.†  (source)
  • To ye aged and beloved, Mr. John Higginson: There he now at sea a ship called Welcome, which has on board too or more of the heretics and malignants called Quakers, with W. Penn, who is the chief scamp, at the head of them.†  (source)
  • 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…  (source)
  • He smiled malignantly and said "No."†  (source)
  • Rath's saga offers a glimpse of the brutality inflicted routinely on women and girls in much of the world, a malignancy that is slowly gaining recognition as one of the paramount human rights problems of this century.†  (source)
  • And how could you even hope to identify the hotbeds of extremism, growing like malignancies in these vulnerable valleys, when they took such care to hide behind high walls and cloak themselves in the excuse of education?†  (source)
  • Cold sweat—that malignant little friend—outstaying its welcome in the armpits and trousers.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)