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They quarrelled three or four times like this, and the dwarfish sempstress's shamelessness and evil-mindedness always showed themselves.

From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando

This is one of the stickiest impediments to progress, one of the most respectable forms of evil-mindedness.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Rauschenbusch, Walter

The doctor looked so indignant; I think I never saw him so thoroughly convinced of the evil-mindedness of any one, as he appeared to be of Casson's.

From Louis' School Days A Story for Boys by May, E. J. (Edith J.)

Deploring the evil-mindedness of her eldest daughter in these terms, Mrs Kenwigs distilled fresh drops of vexation from her eyes, and declared that she did believe there never was anybody so tried as she was.

From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles

A child's thirst for the interpretation of this knowledge is imperative and unsatiable—not from prurience nor from evil-mindedness, but in obedience to a law of our nature, the child demands this knowledge—and will get it.

From Youth and Sex by Scharlieb, Mary