Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Harmful or evil in intent or effect.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Doing or producing harm; acting with evil intent or effect; harmful; mischievous: as, a maleficent enemy or deed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Harmful or evil in intent or effect.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. harmful or evil in intent or effect
Examples
“‘To free the world of a certain maleficent object.’”
“Latins called the maleficent ghosts of the dead, Larvae, and called the beneficent or harmless ghosts, Lares, or Manes, or Genii, according to Apuleius.”
“Other things do not: we call them bad or "maleficent".”
“He's a kind of maleficent Candide, who blackmails, lies, betrays, cheats, fucks, namedrops, marries and blunders his way to the top – and assumes no one will notice.”
“now, what i really wanted to say was this: i'm hoping burton does do his "maleficent" movie - it sounds cool!”
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“It was something that was being awakened in him, an image incarnate of outward conditions, as cruel, as ugly, as maleficent as were those outward conditions.”
“As personifications of radical otherness, the monsters of supernatural horror are often identified with the divine, especially with its more dreadful, maleficent aspects.”
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“If something could bring a great evil from his own world into this one, an evil which none here including Clothahump could understand, why could not that same maleficent force reverse the channel one day and thrust some similar unmentionable horror on his own unsuspecting world?”
“Sanjeev's speeding BMW is a symbol of gleaming, maleficent capital, unchecked by conscience or by the roadblocks of the state.”
“It's not good enough that a few hundred people reading a website may "get this"; again, unless Obama fights this maleficent horror/terror at every level .... he will/we will lose .... and the longer this pustulence "sits out there" unchallenged the harder it will be to clean up/disinfect.”
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