Malignity: 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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To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to de…

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Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

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Evil doing, esp. to others.

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Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of…

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Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

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Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees…

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Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

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Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

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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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Alt. of Malignancy

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The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

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