malevolent
IPA: mʌɫˈɛvʌɫʌnt
adjective
- Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
- Having an evil or harmful influence.
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Examples of "malevolent" in Sentences
- The malevolent spirit entered his body.
- The beast was believed to be purely malevolent.
- The man is clever, perseverant, and malevolent.
- The rest is false, malevolent and simply disgusting.
- The are malevolent spirits that dwell in the Sanzu River.
- Malignant: dangerous to health; also used to refer to malevolent people.
- Griffin grinned at her, his face wreathed in an expression of malevolent mischievousness.
- Related to spam, but even more malevolent, is phishing -- a deliberate attempt to illegally gain access to personal information.
- Behind her, the security cops sported crooked grins while Mother contemplated Kaitlin with what could only be described as a malevolent smile.
- He calls her malevolent, naive and "essentially sour and without hope," and says she "writes as if personality, appearance, and attitude were the only things that mattered."
- She pinpointed the locations of the positive ley lines under the ground, and carefully dowsed the inside of the church for noxious rays, evil emanations, and something she called malevolent attachments.
- Certainly using the griefer tag is inappropriate as it immediately lumps in the incompetent with the malevolent, which is useless from a design perspective since both groups respond to very different carrots.
- Still and all, when I say there is something "insidious" about the taste of Dutch Coca-Cola she hs to ask what insidious means -- she knows what it means, but she just has to check, because she doesn't understand why I would choose such a word -- I revised to "malevolent" -- to describe such a benign thing.