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What does malevolent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word malevolent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others
  2. having an evil or harmful influence
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The lurching father suggests a voodoo zombi dug up by some malevolent Pedro loa and set to work in the plantations of Haiti.
While there is much that is wonderful, nature and man frequently prove malevolent forces.
Even more than the words in the previous paragraph, it suggests an evil, malevolent intelligence at work.
For many years, it saw only the darkest of evil, bathed in the malevolent glow of hellfire.
In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers.
Radical organizations leverage the militant tone and temper set by the delegates to propagate their malevolent agitprop.

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