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• The Pari, in Persian mythology, is a description of fairy beings but malevolent.2021, Farshad Torkashvand, Into the Embrace of Fire. From the entry pari
• If Cary Grant ran by, chased by a malevolent cropduster, you might not be surprised.2007 May 27, John Anderson, “Blood and Crashes? Sounds Like Lynch”, in New York Times. From the entry cropduster
• This man knows the void; he shows how urban emptiness can be an active, malevolent, urbicidal force.2006, Marshall Berman, On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square, Random House, →ISBN, page xxxiv, →ISBN. From the entry urbicidal
• But other klonvocations, held contemporaneously with Norfolk's, he pointed out, had displayed a more malevolent quality.2002, Alexander Leidholdt, Editor for justice: the life of Louis I. Jaffé, page 169. From the entry klonvocation
• The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds.1967, Richard M. Dorson, “Spirits and Hants”, in American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, page 213. From the entry hant
• He is correctly ferocious, but like all bullies cringeful before the malevolent Katisha.1960, The New York Times Theater Reviews - Volume 7, page 407. From the entry cringeful
• A continental Celtic female fairy called a corrigan, malevolent, sometimes seductive.1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry korrigan
• The whole of humanity, nature and God himself are under the influence of some malevolent "superomnipotent" power.1916, Royal Society of Medicine, The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 62, Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, page 124. From the entry superomnipotent
• R.I.P., Sandor Clegane and your malevolent brother.2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club…. From the entry rip
• He uses trolling techniques to fight back against trolls that he particularly finds malevolent—specifically pedophiles and RIP trolls.2018, Jill Anne Morris, The Internet as a Game. From the entry pedophile
• Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots.2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute: The Bitterbynde. From the entry watchtower
• "If the homeless wind up with zilch," James retorted, veiling his indignation behind a malevolent smile, "it's because they deserve zilch."1991, Judith Arnold, One Good Turn, page 104. From the entry zilch
• Under his sign the malevolent bocor may take the shape of an animal, and men may be transformed into terrible bakas.1953, Maya Daren, The Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 113. From the entry baka
• Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.1944, Emily Carr, “Dew and Alarm Clocks”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry clinker
• It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 29, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for…. From the entry purposive
• A smile may be seen as malevolent, even when no more is intended than a warm, happy, expression of positive emotion, as in teasing.2010, Gwyneth Daniel, Utmost Extrication: Why Henry Hellyer Shot Himself, page 53. From the entry gelotophobe
• I gasped and shrank back in my seat as a great crustacean sprang into being in front of me, blind, chitinous, rust-red, and malevolent.1978, Charles Sheffield, “The Deimos Plague”, in Stellar Science Fiction Stories, n 4, New York: Del Rey, p 146. From the entry holocube
• Utterly unlaughable, it has all the wit of a malevolent commentator as pitiless and well-informed as the records of the Day of Judgment.1963, Laurence Anthony Michel, Richard Benson Sewall, Tragedy: modern essays in criticism. From the entry unlaughable
• As for Janie, she stood there, petrified, and now her face had become as ugly as sin, and as vicious, and as malevolent.1945, Taylor Caldwell, Wide House. From the entry as sin
• In the Eastern Caribbean, Abrus seeds (Jumbie beads, John Crow beads in Jamaica) are made into necklaces and bracelets to serve as protection against Jumbies and malevolent forces.2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, page 12. From the entry jumbie bead
• In New Indo-Aryan currency the tadbhava and semitatsama forms of yakṣa and yakṣiṉī have come to mean demon and demoness, goblin or malevolent spirits of some kind.1972, Jacob Ensink, Peter Gaeffke, editors, India Maior: Congratulatory Volume Presented to J. Gonda, page 194. From the entry semi-tatsama
• Debating the point was the fraternity's chief sadist, the aforementioned “Kluman the Obnoxious,” Kluman of the bulging malevolent black eyes, swarthy scowl, dark bass voice, and footballish build and disposition.2000, R.F. Dietrich, The Final Solution: A Novel for the End of Days, page 29. From the entry footballish

Meaning of malevolent

1. adjective Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
2. adjective Having an evil or harmful influence.

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How do you use malevolent in a sentence?

Malevolent is used as an adjective. For example: “After she witnessed the death of a colleague, Manning felt how “with enough grief, adrenaline and fear”, war can turn anyone “amoral, even malevolent”.”

What is a short sentence with malevolent?

“R.I.P., Sandor Clegane and your malevolent brother.”

What does malevolent mean?

Malevolent means having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.