as in malice
the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm
her irrepressible malignancy was such that she even attacked her friends behind their backs
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Recent Examples of malignancy
This alone is not necessarily sufficient to create colorectal cancer, but on rare occasions, cells can acquire additional cancer-causing mutations, overflow crypt boundaries and cause malignancies.
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Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
Just as with labels on cigarettes, America's top doctor is calling for cancer risk warnings on alcohol after a report cites studies linking alcoholic beverages to more than a half-dozen malignancies, including breast cancer.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
The American Cancer Society identifies it as a factor in 40% of all cancer cases and 50% of cancer deaths, with clear links to malignancies of the uterus, esophagus, kidney, liver and gallbladder.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
Just as with labels on cigarettes, America's top doctor is calling for cancer risk warnings on alcohol after a report cites studies linking alcoholic beverages to more than a half-dozen malignancies, including breast cancer.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
The American Cancer Society identifies it as a factor in 40% of all cancer cases and 50% of cancer deaths, with clear links to malignancies of the uterus, esophagus, kidney, liver and gallbladder.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malignancy
Noun
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As to the media statements, Cook could not offer adequate proof of one element ― malice ― and so could not make out a prima facie case for defamation as to the media statements.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The actress, however, bore no malice, moving to Europe until her death from a brain tumor in 2011, aged 58.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
14 May 2025
Noun
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The venom also disrupts blood clotting, leading to internal bleeding and further complications.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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Brunson adapts to pressure, then punishes it — like a snake that builds immunity to its predator’s venom.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
Noun
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No more tolerance of hatred, no more mercy for criminals.—
Sarah Beth Hensley,
ABC News,
28 May 2025
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Antisemitism, hatred and terrorism must be stopped, lest our civilization fall into the abyss.—
Diane Gensler,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2025
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That's why the spectacular cruelty with which the cuts were carried out tanked Musk's personal brand and triggered Trump's inexorable decline in approval.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Currently there are no comprehensive animal cruelty laws in China, which experts say has created a culture of impunity among cat torturers.—
Rebecca Wright,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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“Malignancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malignancy. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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