malevolence

Roget category 907

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.2. Diffusive sympathetic affections

#907. Malevolence

noun

malevolence — bad intent, bad intention — unkindness, diskindness^† — ill nature, ill will, ill blood — bad blood — enmity etc. 889 — hate etc. 898 — malignity — malice, malice prepense^† — maliciousness etc. adj. — spite, despite — resentment etc. 900.
uncharitableness etc. adj. — incompassionateness etc. 914.1^† — gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity^†, acerbity churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895.
hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy — cruelty — cruelness etc. adj. — brutality, savagery — ferity^†, ferocity — barbarity, inhumanity, immanity^†, truculence, ruffianism — evil eye, cloven foot — torture, vivisection.
ill turn, bad turn — affront etc. (disrespect) 929 — outrage, atrocity — ill usage — intolerance, persecution — tender mercies [Iron.] — unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar].

verb

be malevolent etc. adj. — bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice — betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot.
hurt etc. (physical pain) 378 — annoy etc. 830 — injure.
, harm, wrong — do harm to, do an ill office to — outrage — disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast.
molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease — throw stones at — play the devil with — hunt down, dragoon, hound — persecute, oppress, grind — maltreat — illtreat, ill-use.
wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel — dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood — have no mercy etc. 914.1.

adjective

malevolent, unbenevolent — unbenign — ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived — evil-minded, evil-disposed — black-browed^†.
malicious — malign, malignant — rancorous — despiteful, spiteful — mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent — unamiable, uncharitable — maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.
harsh, disobliging — unkind, unfriendly, ungracious — inofficious^† — invidious — uncandid — churlish etc. (discourteous) 895 — surly, sullen etc. 901.1. cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted — black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted — hard of heart, unnatural — ruthless etc. (unmerciful) 914.1; relentless etc. (revengeful) 919.
cruel — brutal, brutish — savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger — ferine^†, ferocious — inhuman — barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary — bloodthirsty etc. (murderous) 361 — atrocious — bloodyminded^†.
fiendish, fiendlike^† — demoniacal — diabolic, diabolical — devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic — Tartaran.

adverb

malevolently etc. adj. — with bad intent etc. n..

phrase

cruel as death — hard unkindness' alter'd eye" [Gray]; homo homini lupus [Lat.] [Plautus]; mala mens [Lat.], malus animus [Lat.] [Terence]; rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind" [Hamlet]; sharp-tooth'd unkindness" [Lear].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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