The logic of the criminal was influenced by malignity. From LearnThat.org.
It rests on public malignity, which is its main support. From Wordnik.com. [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference
There was nothing of what medical men call malignity in the case of. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
He was now ashamed to recall the malignity with which, a little while before, he had regarded this innocent unfortunate. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
So the curious man, eager to hear a history of what is bad, is possessed by the passion of malignity, which is brother to envy and jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
I agree with the charge that what has brought our education system to its knees is the 'malignity' of the educationists, and this over the last 40 years. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Commonwealth as much a sign of "malignity" as their enemies had made belief in a king. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683] Reference
The crisp facts came out with force but with no malignity, and Lansing. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
South, and inflicting upon it every humiliation that malignity could devise. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
It is an assertion, the malignity of which is only equalled by its falsehood. 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
Its wit, its humour, or its malignity embalms it, and saves it from destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
Like his father, he had to bear all that Spanish envy and Spanish malignity could inflict. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
They delivered their challenge with the insolence and malignity of their progenitors of the. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
To his poignant wit, and poisonous malignity, Aristophanes joined great intrepidity of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
One or two instances of Southern malignity and outrage were reported to me by one of these refugees. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design —. From Wordnik.com. [Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2] Reference
Once crossed, however, his malignity would be manifested by the most intolerable and petty persecution. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The ruffian, having accomplished his triumph, developed a new trait in the fiendish malignity of his nature. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Othello resisted the insidious wiles of Iago; but ignorance and inexperience yielded in the end to malignity and craft. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Ingenious malignity looks in vain for the faintest trace of self-seeking in His motives; sensuality shrinks abashed from. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Of all conscious and criminal lying, I know of none that exceeds in malignity and magnitude that of a political campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
The indescribable vacancy with which he had listened to the minstrel was replaced by an expression of revolting malignity. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
But Dryden's poem was the offspring of contempt, and Pope's of indignation; one is full of mirth, and the other of malignity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
She was resigned to the appreciation of women only, and these had in their appreciation narrowness of mind, malignity, and envy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With this fierce and cruel disposition was coupled a cunning beyond that of the fox, and a malignity greater than the rattlesnake's. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
So long as his star was propitious, he succeeded in everything; but whenever it changed, his efforts to correct its malignity were fruitless. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Human beings would do the same under the same circumstances; and I have never seen the least sign of personal spite or malignity in the spider. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
There was such a look of malignity on his face as he jerked away and turned to face her that the girl, suddenly sobered, dodged and started to run. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
In one of the mining settlements of California, during the early years of that State, an epidemic fever broke out, and raged with great malignity among the miners. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
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