English > malevolency: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The quality of threatening evil. |
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| Synonyms | malevolence, malice |
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| Narrower | beastliness, meanness | The quality of being deliberately mean / mean |
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| cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty |
| cruelty, cruelness, harshness | The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance |
| Broader | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
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| Adjectives | malevolent | having or exerting a malignant influence |
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