Michael Specter

The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's race can, and often should, be used as a tool for better diagnoses and treatment.

American Journalist

Jean Kennedy Smith

As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel... at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences... Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.

American Diplomat

Willa Cather

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

American Author

Michael Shannon

If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

American Actor

Saul Bass

In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We attempted to show that with flowers that start as sweet and then slowly become malevolent.

American Designer

Michael Korda

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.

English Novelist

Fethullah Gulen

My core belief is to seek peace in the world, helping people eliminate certain malevolent attitudes through education as much as possible.

Turkish Activist

Mason Cooley

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

American Writer

Matt Smith

Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.

English Actor

Plautus

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Roman Playwright

Malevolent has a strong negative tone, signaling harmful intentions or evil.

Negative Tone

Use 'malevolent' to describe deep and intense ill will or maliciousness.

Strong Emotion

'Malevolent' is more serious than simply being unkind or petty.

Not Petty

Emphasizes a sadistic pleasure in witnessing others' hardships or pain.

Enjoying Suffering

Often used in literature to establish a villain or an ominous atmosphere.

Literary Flair

In 'malevolent acts', it implies a series of harmful actions, not a single event.

Greater Malevolence

 did have a brief view of Tandy just a little bit further east of where we are now so basically to the front to the car where she walked off and then she came and peered around a bush from malevolently and then laid down but she's in the long grass and I said I said we would like to

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 astronomer royal of Great Britain. And one of his favorite sayings is the universe is 100 percent malevolent. So what does that mean? It means if you take any one of your bodies at random, drop it anywhere in the universe, drop it in space, you die. Drop it on the Sun, you die.

What will humans look...

 The deity isn't all-good and all-powerful. It might be instead 100 percent malevolent but only 80 percent effective, which pretty much describes the world we see around us, I think. So I would like to propose that the resolution to the mystery of existence

Why does the universe...

 people don't let their children play near there and there's a lot of beliefs around this cenote having sort of evil forces or malevolent forces associated with it cenotes are sinkholes then they're important because the main access to the

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 nervous system get this so wrong how can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation like the touch of a hand and turn it into the malevolent sensation of the touch of the flame well you probably imagine that the nervous

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 a malevolent presence in a built landscape what's missing in all of these what's missing is some image or narrative of ourselves in that scene as constructive agents using fire to make a more habitable world so let's go back to

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 Now, this is often caricatured, as I have here, as a fear that armies of malicious robots will attack us. But that isn't the most likely scenario. It's not that our machines will become spontaneously malevolent.

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 and are actually pretty smart, then we move on to a third they know the truth, and they are deliberately distorting it for their own malevolent purposes. So this is a catastrophe.

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 a third assumption they know the truth and they are deliberately distorting it for their own malevolent purposes so this is a catastrophe this attachment to our own rightness

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 “Dictionary:” noun, “a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.”

Malevolent

Wishing to do evil or harm to others.

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Displaying a desire to cause harm or suffering; enjoying others' suffering.

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Negative Tone

Strong Emotion

Not Petty

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