These tendencies are of two types: beneficent and maleficent. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : maleficent destroyers of reputations. From Dictionary.com.
‘To free the world of a certain maleficent object.’. From Wordnik.com. [Blonde, Black and Blood Red] Reference
Other things do not: we call them bad or "maleficent". From Wordnik.com. [MercatorNet] Reference
Now, what i really wanted to say was this: i'm hoping burton does do his "maleficent" movie - it sounds cool!. From Wordnik.com. [Disney Buzz: Pirates 4 Shooting This Summer, Burton's Next? « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Have they gone up since under maleficent Saxon coercion?. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Egotism grows more maleficent as it becomes more refined. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
His maleficent wife and her pawns had breached his palace. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
The Taglians came to it as though guided by maleficent demons. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
If Barack doesn't deal with this maleficent material directly he will lose. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Devoting One Third Of Its Total Ad Spending To Britney-Obama Spot] Reference
Hence our worship of monetary success and our maleficent Prison Industrial Complex. From Wordnik.com. [Profit of Doom: Of Vampires, Parasites, and the Demise of Capitalism] Reference
Jealousy is a maleficent deity of the harpy tribe; she embitters everything she touches. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The bokor and all his apparently maleficent activities were accepted because they are somehow essential. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference
“You are harder to kill than I would have thought, dear brother,” said the pitiless, the maleficent female. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
“Social capital” is a maleficent metaphor in some ways, because most of us treat economics as a zero-sum game. From Wordnik.com. [Paying It Forward, Paying it Back, Using Your Leverage] Reference
Shelley uses 'monopolizers' to suggest a maleficent circulation of goods, a feature shared by his vegetarian writing. From Wordnik.com. [Ecotopia] Reference
Sanjeev's speeding BMW is a symbol of gleaming, maleficent capital, unchecked by conscience or by the roadblocks of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: This "Year of India": Rana Dasgupta] Reference
O brood maleficent, teemed from Earth's dark womb!. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
Could the maleficent devil himself do more to drive a man mad? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
I did not think that the influence, whatever it was, was maleficent. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference
But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
How often had she not felt its maleficent charm, and had no power to resist it!. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference
That maleficent giant can now hardly grin at the pilgrims whom he once harassed. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
What front can we make against these unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces?. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
In the case of great but maleficent genius the shortness of life is a priceless blessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Map of Life Conduct and Character] Reference
Omen's Damien, and was at the time perhaps the most maleficent prepubescent screen villain since. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
"I consider it less a case of idiocy than one of possession, maleficent possession," replied Crashaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder] Reference
And yet I seem to perceive that (with exceptions) those whom we would count gods were less maleficent. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
To your Sicilian the moon is ever a marvel, a mystical influence, now generous, now maleficent, always portentous. From Wordnik.com. [The Proud Prince] Reference
Other records of maleficent deities in serpent shape were current, and monkeys and dragons inspired similar terror. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
It is true, there must always have been a horror of secret arts, especially of such as were of a maleficent nature. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
That kind of belief in the maleficent as well as in the beneficent powers of the dead became very prevalent in later times. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Religious morality, to abolish and extirpate the maleficent act, appeals to its author, to man in his capacity of active agent. From Wordnik.com. [Sophisms of the Protectionists] Reference
They were in its very basis, and must needs become more and more maleficent as the business fabric grew in size and complexity. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Backward 2000-1887] Reference
Another class of magicians were the maleficent sorcerers who caused people to fall ill and die by burning their personal rubbish. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
Bad magic may be overcome by good magic, and a deity, hostile and maleficent under certain circumstances, may be placated by offerings. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
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