malevolence
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Definition of malevolence
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Synonyms for malevolence
Synonyms
cattiness, despite, hatefulness, malice, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom, viciousness
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Gervais smartly explains this willful failure to distinguish actual malevolence: Everyone that’s being fired and publicly embarrassed about a misdemeanor and being called a Nazi — there are real Nazis who are getting away with it. — Kyle Smith, National Review, "‘Don’t Apologize’: Ricky Gervais Takes On Verbal Terrorism," 16 Aug. 2019 Social media also amplifies the cruelty of sadists whose malevolence in simpler times would have been limited to a more immediate circle of victims. — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, "Kafer: Trolling of Shanann Watts’ family exposes the other dark web," 25 July 2019 Comedy has lately grown more consequential in exposing real-life malevolence. — Los Angeles Times, "In the Trump era, a comedy podcast about conspiracy theories finds a home in the mainstream," 19 July 2019 Atkinson is also adept at weaving the mundane details of her characters’ lives (or perhaps her own) into the Brodie books as a way of humanizing them, despite the stark malevolence that lurks beneath this workaday surface. — Janet Maslin, New York Times, "A Literary Detective Returns to Find Trouble in the Country Club Set," 17 June 2019 For the theologian, the question is how to reconcile the malevolence and suffering of the world with the existence of an all-good, all-powerful god. — James Ryerson, New York Times, "What’s Bad News for Coastlines Can Be Good News for Surfers," 29 Dec. 2017 The elaborate costumes, by Sandy Powell, have a sharp malevolence; the women, particularly Weisz, wear them like armor, swishing their skirts like a cat’s tail. — Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times, "‘The Favourite’ review: an irresistibly nasty tale of lust, power and pet bunnies," 4 Dec. 2018 There may not be tanks in the streets and the administration`s malevolence may be constrained by now by its incompetence, but make no mistake, our democracy is in crisis. — James Freeman, WSJ, "Clinton, Trump and Authoritarianism," 19 Sep. 2018 As with most forms of human malevolence, there is nothing new under the sun. — Laura Hudson, The Verge, "Twitter is wrong: facts are not enough to combat Alex Jones," 10 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'malevolence.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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