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maleficence


  • n  doing or causing evil
  • n  the quality or nature of being harmful or evil

  • A creature of such magnificent maleficence, who rules less by his own considerable powers than by others' fear of him, feeds on cunning and hatred.
  • Last year, curiously, Washington was weaker as a Harlem drug king in Ridley Scott's American Gangster (his silky geniality deprived the role of magnificent maleficence) than he was .
  • Bin Laden, who is incommunicado anyway, isn't required to authorize such comparatively minor maleficence but merely to inspire it.

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