Example sentences for: malignly

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

  • One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.

  • "The most malignly error-ridden study of the American people to appear since the Politburo went out of business" (Robert Sam Anson, the London Times ). Even Newt Gingrich, who raves about the book in the Weekly Standard , says Johnson's account of events since the 1960s is too polemical.

  • A raw-skinned actor named John Aylward does a good job of making the warden--a malignly neglectful bureaucrat--recognizably human, and John Ashton plays the chief villain, a guard called Dacks, as a man whose cruelty arises out of an obsession with control: What makes him scary is his watchfulness.


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