Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
malignancy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will.
- noun Unfavorableness; evil nature.
- noun (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue.
- noun (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.
- noun The state of being a malignant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
malignancy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
- noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
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Examples
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Before there was suspicion, with the citation of his criminal behavior and apparent lack of remorse and contrition and humility etc., there is proof of at least past malignance.
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But where the Magician was grumpy, these were evil; there was incredible malignance in their misshapen faces.
Falcon Street 2010
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It's recent malignance includes: painting the American President as a foreign-born, communist, Moslem, and the Canadian and all other socialized health care as having death panels to cull the elderly.
Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010
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There can be 2 reasons only for not accepting humans as the main source of global warming: idiocy and malignance.
Think Progress » CNBC Anchor Argues ‘Puny, Gnawing Little Humans’ Can’t Change The Climate 2006
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This past weekend, while feeling very frightened and frazzled at the prospect of losing my oldest continuous friend to a recently discovered mass of malignance, I took a silent vow that I would discontinue this blog if he didn't come out of his nine-hour surgery alive.
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This past weekend, while feeling very frightened and frazzled at the prospect of losing my oldest continuous friend to a recently discovered mass of malignance, I took a silent vow that I would discontinue this blog if he didn't come out of his nine-hour surgery alive.
Archive 2008-04-27 2008
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Sowho are these merchants of noise, who work so hard, and so unobtrusively to dominate our attention, while hiding their malignance behind the frenzied smiles and desperate flim-flam of others who more effectively command our loyalty, respect, admiration and even doting adoration?
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Every one thought the decision admirable; it traveled from lip to lip, gaining malignance by the way.
Two Poets 2007
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Every one thought the decision admirable; it traveled from lip to lip, gaining malignance by the way.
Two Poets 2007
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Doing so by deliberate malignance is called fraud.
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