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malevolency
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Noun malevolency has 1 sense
- malevolency(n = noun.attribute) malevolence, malice - the quality of threatening evil; Array has particulars: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, cruelness, cruelty, harshness, beastliness, meanness
is a kind of evil, evilness
Derived form adjective malevolent2
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