All 4 Uses of
malignant
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.†
Chpt 6 *
- His eyes looked malignantly at me, and his gray whiskers bristled like those of an angry cat.†
Chpt 11
- Was he our malignant enemy, or was he by chance our guardian angel?†
Chpt 11
- Its tenacious grip plucked at our heels as we walked, and when we sank into it it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths, so grim and purposeful was the clutch in which it held us.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor