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Notes from the Underground
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- There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite.†
Chpt 1.3
- In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point.†
Chpt 1.4
- In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- His moans become nasty, disgustingly malignant, and go on for whole days and nights.†
Chpt 1.4
- And of course he knows himself that he is doing himself no sort of good with his moans; he knows better than anyone that he is only lacerating and harassing himself and others for nothing; he knows that even the audience before whom he is making his efforts, and his whole family, listen to him with loathing, do not put a ha'porth of faith in him, and inwardly understand that he might moan differently, more simply, without trills and flourishes, and that he is only amusing himself like that from ill-humour, from malignancy.†
Chpt 1.4
- "Anyway, in a year you will be worth less," I continued malignantly.†
Chpt 2.6
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)