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How to use malevolent in a sentence

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Some people, including some opponents, seem to feel that this malevolent dotard was, somewhere, innocent of proper thought and responsibility.
That evil is malevolent violence, a curse that is the bane of our human existence.
Its intentions are always malevolent and they are the brave warriors who hope to break the system down with almost anyone's help.
Uncle John's brand of organised chaos may well be governed by these malevolent forces.
Another spot on the grass which will darken to a malevolent green and then die over-winter, requiring seeding.
It's important to remember that the elementals were not supposed to be evil or malevolent, just not human.
And this is the case with Dr Octopus who is only temporarily controlled by a malevolent force.
From the resultant penalty, Wood went for goal, but on this occasion the malevolent wind steered the ball off target.
The 1996 World Cup was a marker of this new, malevolent mood of the cricket fan.
That whatever malevolent forces had been unleashed could not harm me personally for this very reason.
The term was coined to distinguish it from other kinds of malevolent programs, such as the aforementioned spyware, badware or malware and adware.
The malevolent exercise of supposed supernatural powers, especially by women, attributed to a connection with the devil or evil spirits.
And instead of original sin leading to the Fall of Man, we fear the degradation of Nature by an apparently malevolent human species.
From the doorsteps, some misbegotten mutts might cast a malevolent but lazy eye toward us.
Sure enough, the tremor of his voice instilled fear but something within felt familiar with his malevolent aura.
But now the perennial moaning about diving has mutated into a full-blown campaign to stamp out this malevolent practice.
He proceeded to lift the umbrella out of the hole in the table and walk away with it, leaving us exposed neath a sky of malevolent aspect.
These malevolent creatures could only cause utter despair and hideous circumstances wherever they sojourned.
Clearly this is counterintuitive to the more common assumption that large gangs of malevolent youths are vicious, destructive, soulless morons.
Her back is to us as she faces a cardinal with voluminous robes and a malevolent expression.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Towards the year 1300, the ladies' dress fell under the animadversion of the malevolent writers of that day.
The calif, astonished at this declaration, told the malevolent informer, that he hoped he could prove what he had asserted.
His gold tooth, gleaming in the light, made his rictus of passion more venomous, more malevolent still.
It was not in places of general resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst offer him injury.
In all grisettes there is something of the malevolent mischief of a monkey.
With a malevolent expression on his face, his beady eyes gleaming with cruel intelligence, he began teetering.
She ceased to look on him as something wantonly malevolent, a Thersites recklessly slandering his betters.
But in many ways it reminds me of Nick-Nack, that malevolent midget from James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun.
But, evading him, she towered, lean and malevolent as a fury.
What malevolent ingenuity ever selected the precise path that led to ruin?
Something in his blood raged at the sight of the malevolent face.
The problem, of course, always has been that the perfervid defenders and malevolent critics have the same misunderstanding.
Ukozi is a clever specimen of a witch doctor but not a malevolent one.
They were violet in colour, protuberant, and malevolent beyond words.
I was annoyed at being watched by those malevolent, mocking eyes.
As the villain of the piece Andrew Rivera made a swarthily malevolent and richly stentorian Scarpia, but lacked a real glint of wickedness in the eyes.
It is as if his heart were corrupted by a malevolent and brooding rancour.
Todd Delaney was an ardent and nicely conflicted Aeneas to Hall's Dido, Teri Dunn a vivid Belinda and Marion Newman a wily scheming rather than truly malevolent Sorceress.
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