What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. From LearnThat.org. [Ayn Rand (1905-1982)]
The equivalent of epichairekakia in Latin is malevolentia (like the English word 'malevolence'), according to blogger Michael Gilleland. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Ancient / Classical History] Reference
All of their will and malevolence is bent on achieving this one thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Starr backs Sotomayor court bid] Reference
Bracy, forewarned by his dream of a concealed serpent strangling a dove, suspects that some malevolence is afoot without tracing it immediately to Geraldine's presence. From Wordnik.com. [Mocking Stupendous Mechanisms: Romantic Parody and Frankenstein's Dream] Reference
In Jerome's, well, I can't ascribe it to any kind of malevolence or cowardice. From Wordnik.com. [The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Reference
It took a special kind of malevolence to make the kind of mess those reprobates left behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
So we swap it out for "malevolence"; in a couple of years it will be misused in exactly the same way as "evil" was just like every other euphemism. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
'malevolence' are placed in his 'table' by the side of pleasures of. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
Their despair immediately gave place to reawakened malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
Just long lustrous red hair, circling blindly with peculiar malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [Session Fifteen] Reference
The abbot's words, as to the malevolence of the influence involved, was proved to. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
When she turns around, she sees Ruth, staring at her with dark and sallow malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In Translation] Reference
I have too many reasons to believe that he regards me with jealousy and malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Waco -- like so much of what the government touches -- was about incompetence, not malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [The Age Of Conspiracism] Reference
Carradine and Thurman's two big scenes together have a delicate mix of malevolence, desire and regret. From Wordnik.com. [THE IMPORTANCE OF KILLING BILL] Reference
The government were equally protected with all others against the malevolence and virulence of the press. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
He's there, played by Anthony Hopkins, with all his malevolence, his paranoia and his ruthlessness intact. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference
Hastings; tales that were amplified and exaggerated, either by private malevolence or by oriental hyperbole. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Nor was this the only prejudice which malevolence seems now to have been secretly exciting against our hero. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
Politics have been a running theme since her early collages, which are infused with malevolence and brutality. From Wordnik.com. [A PAINTER OF STORIES] Reference
Losing all control they were carried away by their delirious malevolence; their voices reached a high shrill pitch. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Scrawny of figure, hard and repelling of features, an atmosphere of malevolence seemed to emanate from her presence. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Tiny silver flecks had come into her eyes, and he realized to his astonishment that they were flecks of malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
His left leg was badly crushed and his face, contorted with pain and fiendish malevolence, was horrible to look upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Which suits the change in mood, the priapic desperation of the first album having been supplanted by ravenous malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [Grinderman: Grinderman 2] Reference
We looked-up to see a guy with greasy, side-parted hair staring down at us and smiling madly, a mix of glee and malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [That's It] Reference
While at the post-restante, we experienced a singular example of the persistency and malevolence of the typical Italian beggar. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
The kids appear to be generalizing their emotional response, so that they cannot distinguish between malevolence and misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [A Bunch of Little Scrooges?] Reference
Burke commenced his speech by a solemn invocation to British justice, and disclaiming any personal motive or private malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Moro, a bad specimen, well known at the police court, who combined craft with malevolence and strength in a most diabolical manner. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
It is to be regretted that the ignorance and malevolence indicated by these charms cannot as easily be gathered in and disposed of. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"Young girl!" returns she, toning down a little, but still betraying malevolence of a very advanced order in her voice and expression. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Secondly, ... discouraging future criminals from crossing the border, acting as a figurative wall of apprehension and malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [William K. Black: Why the Ferocity of Attacks on the Bridge Builders?] Reference
The brute, however, evaded the blow, and once more erected itself in front of Ferguson, hissing its malevolence almost in his very face. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
The creation of a beneficent Deity of such moral grandeur inevitably emphasized the baseness and the malevolence of the "Power of Evil". From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
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