Sample Sentences for
malignant
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    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
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    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
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    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.  (source)
    malignant = showing a desire to harm
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    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
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    'I couldn't have believed it, sir' said Mrs Mann, holding up her hands, and looking malignantly at Dick.†  (source)
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    He hit it [the shark] without hope but with resolution and complete malignancy.  (source)
    malignancy = intent to harm
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    The silence that followed his outburst had a fungus quality to it, as though it were breeding malignancies, and I had the uncanny feeling that I had somehow been stripped naked and violated.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Cold sweat—that malignant little friend—outstaying its welcome in the armpits and trousers.†  (source)
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    'If I could only show you my power ..., and she smiled malignantly, defiantly at me '....I could make you want me, desire me!†  (source)
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    GEORGE: The most profound indication of a social malignancy ....no sense of humor.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The walls didn't radiate the same malignant heat.†  (source)
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