In this they were encouraged by Iffley, who seemed to take a malignant pleasure in seeing me ill-treated, though he did not himself attempt to lay hands on me.
I never before had seen his countenance wear so malignant an expression, and I feared, not without reason, that even at that moment he was plotting to do us some mischief.
And very pretty, too," quoth Lawrence Sterne, with a malignant grin.
He spoke with great suavity, for the man was still pressing the tip of his dagger against the palm of his left hand, as though to assure himself of its sharpness, while his face preserved its malignant expression.
Close at his heels followed Bellingham, his fat, unhealthy face all quivering with malignant passion.
I was conscious of his malignant yellow-tinged eyes within a few inches of my own, and then with a beating of pulses in my head and a singing in my ears, my senses slipped away from me.
It was quickly quenched; and I was sent for to advise whether, if her enemies were so malignant as this attempt showed them to be, it was safe and right for her to expose her pupils’ and her own life any longer to their wicked devices.
She treated him with hostility, and the more he showed his love, the greater was her coldness, the more malignant her indifference.
It soon resolved itself into a malignant ulcer, which rapidly exhausted all the vital energies.
What avails it that Corrector Paulmann gave me hopes of a writership: will my malignant fate allow it, which everywhere pursues me?
He therefore in the play invests the day with a fatal significance, and on it a malignant fate has especial power over the fortunes of the persons of the drama; there is also a fatal requisite and a general atmosphere of fatalism.
The student Anselmus very gladly accepted this proposal, thinking thereby to escape the malignant destiny which had ruled over him all day.
The unbending, malignant goddess is more acceptable often than the divinity who only asks for an effort that shall avert disaster.
These were her reflections while she sat there waiting, and her smile deepened in malignant triumph.
His look ofmalignant triumph was awful to behold, for in his eyes his hated rival was already slain.
He does not consider how he degrades his hero, by making him at fifty-nine the pupil of turpitude, and liable to the malignant influence of an ascendant mind.
It is reasonable to suppose that Addison counteracted, as far as he was able, the malignantand blasting influence of the Lieutenant; and that at least by his intervention some good was done, and some mischief prevented.
Mr. McClung's action in thus stemming the tide of adverse, powerful andmalignant influences bent upon crushing and ruining his client cannot be overestimated.
Tumors are usually divided into benign and malignant growths.
Delay and neglect are suicidal in malignant disease.
Malignant tumors are divided into cancers (carcinomata) and sarcomas (sarcomata).
Space does not permit us to recount the other forms of benign tumors and it would be impossible to describe how they could be distinguished from malignant growths.
Theirs is a spirit of curiosity and adventurous enterprise, impelled by nomalignant influences, but by the spontaneous promptings of the mind.
Would to God that conscience might subdue yourmalignant prejudices.
If so, we would ask why so many of our hearty, hale and healthy brethren, on arriving in that country, fall victims to the malignant fevers and disorders, prevalent in those regions?
Consider the inevitable consequence of these reiterated and malignant statements, with regard to the habits and designs of the free people of color.
Nay, that religion itself cannot subdue their malignant prejudices, or induce them to treat their dark-skinned brethren in accordance with their professions of republicanism!
This charge is even more malignant than the other, and utterly groundless.
But the greater portion, as is well known, are a source of malignant depravity to the slaves on the one hand, and of corrupt habits to many of our white population on the other.
Mitigate and keep down the evil as much as you can, still it is there in all its native virulence, and still it will do its malignant work in spite of you.
Delirium, and dilated pupils of the eyes, are more frequent in nervous fevers; and stupor with deafness more frequent attendants on malignant fevers.
These causes of malignant fevers contributed to produce, and to support for a while, the septic and antiseptic theory of them; see Sect.
This cancerous matter does not seem to acquire its malignant or contagious quality, till the cancer becomes an open ulcer; and the matter secreted in it is thus exposed to the air.
Johnson was the most invidious and malignant man I have ever known.
The common and facile answer is that he was moved by a malignant desire to put a rival out of the way.
Pardon me, reader, if I use a coarse word and a malignant word, which I should abhor to use unless where, as in this case, I seek to rouse the vigilance of the inattentive by the apparent intemperance of the language.
Who does not feel that these are the fierce pasquinades, and the coarse pasquinades, of some malignant electioneering contest?
Anything moremalignant and vicious than her look I have seldom seen.
The thing is perfectly clear," he muttered to himself, with a malignant smile anticipating the triumph of his decision.
Well, brother, to make a long story short, I was going in for a regular explosion here to uproot all malignant influences in the locality, but Pashenka won the day.
A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred.
She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose.
Not yet their glaring and malignant lamps Were shifted, though each feature chang'd beneath.
But that ungrateful and malignant race, Who in old times came down from Fesole, Ay and still smack of their rough mountain-flint, Will for thy good deeds shew thee enmity.
A contagious disease, generally confined to the horse, ass, and mule, but communicable to man, in whom it assumes a highly malignant and often fatal character.
As a lotion in cancer of the lip, and as a wash for malignant ulcers.
If this violence was experienced in subduing the tenderest of human sympathy; how much more severe was the conflict of dark passions only half subdued, or malignant depravity only partially reformed.
The writer must seek payment from some moremalignant man than myself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "malignant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
