The Only Use
malignant
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; ... the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive.
p. 62.8malignant = evil
Definitions:
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(1)
(malignant) harmful or evil
in medicine: harmful growth as with a cancerous tumor - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)