Both Uses
malignant
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Inkheart
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- Farid saw other ghosts and spirits, too, whole armies of them: malignant, all-powerful beings who tore the hearts out of poor mortal boys and ate them.†
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- There were wonderful illustrations of dwarves and fairies, and the stories told tales of mighty beings tall as giants, strong as bears, even immortal, but they were all malignant: The giants ate human beings, the dwarves were greedy for gold, the fairies were malicious and bore a grudge.†
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)