malignity
noun
the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
malignities
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pluralof malignity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
And then it was that once more the Old Man brought back the House to the temper from which it had been carried by the malignities of Mr. Chamberlain.
From Sketches in the House (1893) by T. P. O'Conner
All his little malignities, unless the epigram on Ward be his, are dead along with his little sentimentalities; while Byron’s Scourge hangs over his Memory.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
Considering his bodily infirmities, his energies and his malignities, which were many and active, were marvellously little abated by time.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The cabal which gathered head against Bajazet could only whisper its malignities when Mithridate appeared.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
