malevolence

• Mars in all its casual malevolence, against whom one miscalculation meant sudden death and a freeze-dried corpse pointed out to gawking tourists. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• He sometimes cracks his jokes upon us; but he will find that we can distinguish between the stabs of malevolence, and the rebukes of the righteous, which are like excellent oil[14], and break not the head[15] . —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
• The arrows of malevolence, therefore, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark , they will be continually aimed. —  George Washington, Vol. II
• I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions which always stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet; but merely think of the pure, absolute, honest ignorance in which all worldlings of every rank and situation must be enveloped, with respect to the thoughts, feelings and images on which the life of my poems depends. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
• As with all heated and hating partisans, their malevolence was principally directed toward the leaders of the opposing party. —  The Memories of Fifty Years

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