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
Trump is a reverse Trojan Horse: a shred of reason inside a thick armor of malignancy.
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John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
It is typically associated with gastrointestinal malignancies, as well as:
Bladder cancer
Colon cancer
Gastric adenocarcinoma6
Kidney cancer4
Liver cancer
Lymphoma
Stomach cancer3
Acanthosis Nigricans in Different Skin Tones
AN can present differently depending on skin tone.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
See All Example Sentences for malignancy
John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
It is typically associated with gastrointestinal malignancies, as well as:
Bladder cancer
Colon cancer
Gastric adenocarcinoma6
Kidney cancer4
Liver cancer
Lymphoma
Stomach cancer3
Acanthosis Nigricans in Different Skin Tones
AN can present differently depending on skin tone.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malignancy
Noun
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Slightly off-topic comments can derail it so far away from the original point, and it isn't always done with malice.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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To borrow another logical principle, Hanlon's razor: Don't ascribe to malice that which can be otherwise explained by rank incompetence.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Chung also used a powerful MRI scanner to produce images of the octopuses’ brains and internal organs, discovering that the males had larger venom glands than females despite their smaller size.—
Jack Guy,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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Once the venom wore off, the females merely forced the males away, with all six females surviving to lay their eggs.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That ecstatic communal experience is a glorious moment of freedom for oppressed people, most of them living hand-to-mouth in an environment of hatred and exploitation.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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In fact, her personal hatred of gripping challenges even served as her Survivor hot take below.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Woodland police detectives on Tuesday arrested Christian Jacobo, 22, on suspicion of murder and willful cruelty toward a child causing death, police officials said in a Friday news release.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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But what’s even creepier is Remmick’s invitation to the holdouts to join them, promising an escape from dehumanizing cruelty into a fellowship that offers an eternal life of freedom and enlightenment.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Malignancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malignancy. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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