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Six example sentences with malevolent, each labelled with its topic.
The final boss is not merely strong but malevolent, taunting players by name and burning down their saved villages.
Gaming
Iago is malevolent from the first scene, delighting in ruin he gains nothing from and hiding it behind loyalty.
Literature
The camera lingers on his smile just long enough for the audience to read it as malevolent rather than kind.
Movies
The painter gave the stepmother a malevolent stare, eyes narrowed and lips pressed thin, so no viewer mistakes her for kind.
Art
Anxious people often read a neutral face as malevolent, seeing ill will in a stranger who is merely thinking about lunch.
Psychology
Campaign ads cast the opponent as malevolent, though most voters who met him found a tired man who liked gardening.
Politics
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