malevolence
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /məˈlɛvələns/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editmalevolence (countable and uncountable, plural malevolences)
- Hostile attitude or feeling.
- to show someone malevolence
- He said it with malevolence.
- 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club[1]:
- Esai Morales appears as the enforcer for “the entity‘’ and brings such simmering malevolence to the character that he should have been the villain instead.
- Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.
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edithostile feeling and attitude
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