malevolency

Definitions of malevolency
  1. noun
    the quality of threatening evil
    synonyms: malevolence, malice
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    bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness
    malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
    cruelness, cruelty, harshness
    the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
    beastliness, meanness
    the quality of being deliberately mean
    brutality, ferociousness, savagery, viciousness
    the trait of extreme cruelty
    murderousness
    cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder
    type of:
    evil, evilness
    the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
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