Noun
The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
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He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.
His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity.
A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
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The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.
A group of goblins.
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There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud.
A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.
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As a malignity of goblins giggled drunkenly in a corner booth, Fabian and I approached the table with Isaac and Hakim.
Noun
wishing evil to others
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quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
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