All 5 Uses of
malevolent
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Between these two extremes, the greeting cards, received year after year, on Christmas, or Easter, or birthdays, trumpeted their glad tidings; while the green metal serpent, perpetually malevolent, raised its head proudly in the midst of these trophies, biding the time to strike.†
Chpt 1.1
- John thought for that moment that his father believed the words had come from him, his eyes were so wild and depthlessly malevolent, and his mouth was twisted into such a snarl of pain.†
Chpt 1.1
- "You come crying back soon enough," said Gabriel, with malevolence, "soon as they whip your butt up there four or five times."
Chpt 2.1 *malevolence = with the desire to hurt another
- "I reckon," he said, malevolently, "you is just made up your mind to serve Satan all your days."†
Chpt 2.2
- A lean cat stalked the gutter and fled as they approached; turned to watch them, with yellow, malevolent eyes, from the ambush of a garbage can.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(malevolent) evil
- of a person -- wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
- of a thing -- exerting an evil or harmful influence