Word of the Day:
malignancy
What It Means
The state of being malignant or diseased.
A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
Malignancy in Context
“A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.”
Did You Know?
From malignant + -cy or malign + -ancy or Latin malignantia.
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