How to Use malevolence in a Sentence

malevolence

noun

• Ayosa wants to go and do, but tragedy and other people’s malevolence stalk her.
  — Nanjala Nyabola, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022
• Some of my other favorites have been the Malevolence and its ion weapon, the darksaber and the commando droids.
  — Jason B. Jones, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2010
• Behind his long absences is a tragedy that, for the actor but not his wife, is tinged with malevolence.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2017
• Much has been written about Smith’s malevolence, but little of it is here.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• As with most forms of human malevolence, there is nothing new under the sun.
  — Laura Hudson, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
• There is one more way the United States can help stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions—and the rest of the regime’s malevolence.
  — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• Indeed, malevolence closes in on Ayosa the way that the world closes in on most girls around puberty.
  — Nanjala Nyabola, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022
• His career as a vessel of Nazi malevolence begins in the late thirties.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• Yes, there is a lot to mock in the Proud Boys playbook, but the bro-ish-ness of its branding actually helps to disguise its true malevolence.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 8 Jan. 2021
• Flashbacks spanning decades apprise us of the voracious malevolence that has plagued the house.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• His truest moment of malevolence is reserved for a waitress who brings him an overcooked steak.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 17 July 2023
• The effect is like that of entering a movie set depicting the high-tech lair of a villain in a James Bond film, but without the air of menace and malevolence.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• There’s a kind of malevolence that looms large precisely because its purview is so paltry.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• In flashbacks that follow, a fuller portrait of John Paul emerges: less a man than a monster patched together from spite and malevolence, with a hefty dash of cringe.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2022
• On top of that, what if the moon was actually home to a living creature of unknown power and malevolence?
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• For one: how Phil’s malevolence comes from a place of self-loathing and self-protection as a closeted gay man living in Montana in 1925.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• His lust is gluttony, and Return of the Jedi is weird enough to score his slothful malevolence to a musical number.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Some saw a teenager trying to work through a dark period in his life, while others saw a growing malevolence.
  — Mark Berman and Matt Zapotosky, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• After all, despite Mark’s air of malevolence, the specifics of his conflict with Lily are never really fleshed out.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2018
• Parts of the song teeter right on the edge of malevolence as the band members use their mythic powers to battle their alter-egos, infamously dubbed X-EXO.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2019
• For the theologian, the question is how to reconcile the malevolence and suffering of the world with the existence of an all-good, all-powerful god.
  — James Ryerson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2017
• Or the Miami pigeons with sheer malevolence in their thieving eyes?
  — Colm Tóibín, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2022
• Jesse was the closest thing to a conscience Walt had; once their partnership dissolved, Walt’s malevolence only grew.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2022
• And even with Richard, Mr. Whitehead infused comic touches as a counterpoint to the king’s malevolence.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
• There may not be tanks in the streets and the administration`s malevolence may be constrained by now by its incompetence, but make no mistake, our democracy is in crisis.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
• In Elvis, the approach is basically to hide Hanks, lest our knee-jerk fondness for him clash too much with Parker’s malevolence.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
• If sunshine is a metaphor for truth and freedom, then Kelly represents the cool, dark malevolence of whitemannery.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 8 Feb. 2018
• The intent in making so many threats seemed to be to terrorize; the perpetrator whom Miller described had some of the anonymous malevolence of the Internet troll.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
• Butler taps a vein of garish and almost comic malevolence that keeps flowing.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• Nationalist passions surged in both countries from the 1890s onward, as did darker notions of the malevolence of the other.
  — Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024