malevolence
Roget category 907
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
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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].
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