Malignant

//məˈlɪɡnənt//

"Malignant" in a Sentence (17 examples)

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The tumor is malignant.

Tom is a malignant narcissist.

"Here, girt with steel, the foremost in the fight, / fierce Juno stands, the Scaean gates before, / and, mad with fury and malignant spite, / calls up her federate forces from the shore."

Is it malignant?

It was an odious face—crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-grey eyes and white lashes.

In the age of the Portuguese maritime expeditions, sailors were afflicted with the most diverse illnesses: malignant fevers, diarrhea, and the dreaded and frequent scurvy, resulting from a lack of vitamin C caused by malnutrition.

There are various types of tumors – some benign and some malignant.

Various types of tumors exist, both benign and malignant.

A certain amount of ambitiousness, before it reaches the malignant stage, can also be an engine for progress.

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malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection

[…]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.

malignant diphtheria

a malignant tumor

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”

As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants […]

A malignant in a position of real power immediately becomes a tyrant.

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