Example sentences for: malevolent

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

  • (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."

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

  • This secrecy allows Esther Pollard to make bold claims about her husband's innocence and to dismiss these damning allegations as the malevolent fabrications of Pollard-haters.

  • The idea that Jewish lineage is impure or malevolent reappears in Visigothic Spain in the early medieval period, and most notoriously in Nazi Germany.

  • I don't like Richie Aprile, the new thug on the block, precisely because he's such a malevolent thug, at least so far (yeah, he's a bit New Agey, but his whole yoga shtick feels forced, as if the writers decided that each and every character had to be a member of the sensitive, slightly feminized postmodern mob).


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