Maleficence: alternatives and connections

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

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The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

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The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

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Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

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Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

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Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

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Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

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Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

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Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

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The quality or state of being baleful.

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Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…

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The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

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The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

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