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.