How to Use malevolent in a Sentence

malevolent

adjective

• That, at any rate, is how the more malevolent critics of Herodotus would put it.
  — Tom Holland, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2017
• Why are all the adults in the story—save, perhaps, one or two—malevolent?
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• This was a man who viewed his body as a swarming hive of malevolent bees.
  — Denise Davidson Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
• The Sith are the malevolent enemies of the do-gooding Jedi.
  — John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
• But there is also a strange malevolent presence on board, sensed by the team's telepath.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2018
• Ben goes, pretends to snap some shots, and declares the place free of malevolent spirits.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• Our intelligence views them as the most aggressive and the malevolent force in the world.
  — Fox News, 21 July 2018
• Oh yeah, Russians are on the platform and have abused it, malevolent actors have abused it.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 2 May 2018
• The main thing is that there's just something malevolent about parrots.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• All the same, Reagan’s views of a malevolent Kremlin were well-founded.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• And most don’t require a malevolent dictator to bring them to full fruition.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2022
• At the heart of the play are machinations and scheming, of both the benevolent and malevolent sort, designed to steer or derail the course of love.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• The crew of an interstellar ship battles a malevolent force in this sci-fi thriller.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• The Crown’s forces had approached on horseback and by sea, with muskets, swords, and malevolent intent.
  — David Kamp, Vanities, 22 Sep. 2017
• Along the way are rowdy choir boys, a nosy Sacristan, a wistful shepherd boy, and a gallery of malevolent henchmen.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 13 May 2018
• Each of these ten stories pitted a hero against a malevolent one-eyed giant.
  — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• As such a name may imply, Lilith’s influence on the world is brutal and malevolent.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2022
• As Dawn draws closer to the truth, something malevolent grips her and her family.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2022
• But in Season 2, Horse is more like a malevolent trickster god, or a portal to the underworld.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2022
• While not always malevolent, they’re noted pranksters, and a good deal of time is spent trying to keep them happy.
  — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• These malevolent mechatronics put the power down with a vengeance.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The experts assumed that this would soon change, and that they’d be mobilized in a hot war against malevolent fakers.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Pathogens do not rampage like malevolent armies on the march, causing damage in direct relation to the scale and pace of their spread.
  — Time, 3 Feb. 2020
• The press censor—for so long a malevolent presence in the lives of even the most pacific journalists—was largely set aside.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The doll then proceeds to summon other malevolent forces.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2019
• In this section, one discovers that the Orcs, the malevolent shock troops of Middle-earth’s dark forces, were vampiric.
  — Bradley J. Birzer, National Review, 26 Sep. 2021
• The malevolent head of the empire’s special forces is sent in to cull the threat by ordering the capture and public torture of dozens of these tribal people.
  — Beth Marchant, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• All these and many more disasters were enabled by a malevolent form of trust and loyalty.
  — Chris Lowney, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Everyone lives in the shadow of his father's malevolent ego.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Noir is a cry of desolation in the face of a universe that is malevolent—or, at best, indifferent.
  — David L. Ulin, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 9 May 2024