Example sentences for: malevolent

How can you use “malevolent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, blackmailing, cowardly, thoroughly dishonest creep.

  • Almost anyone, even the most sociopathic of sociopaths, can get through the occasional interaction like that without seeming malevolent.

  • The imbalance is especially notable given that other significant phenomena--such as the lingering effects of racial oppression in the (recent) past, new eruptions of anti-black prejudice, and so-called "rational" racial discrimination (by which people, without malevolent intent, use black skin as a negative cue)--are relegated to the far margins of discussion.

  • (Those malevolent imps are tenacious and bothersome: Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense, was once seen by the Washington Post trying to "wriggle loose from his personal demons."

  • Klein's goal is to transform an uncontrolled and miserable hatred of fat (his and yours) into a flabophilic delight that, by robbing fat of its malevolent power, will lead to becoming thin.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast