Example sentences for: malevolent

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

  • 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.

  • The larger point is that the movie, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, belongs to a different genre than Blair Witch , which traffics in the irrational, the unseen, the terror of malevolent nothingness.

  • In another enclosure, the stones wound in white cloth with a yellow sash come from Gunung Rinjani, and Chinese Taoists have put mirrors there to repel the malevolent spirits.

  • 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.

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


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