malevolently

English

Etymology

malevolent + -ly

Adverb

malevolently (comparative more malevolently, superlative most malevolently)

  1. In a malevolent manner; evilly.
    • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 25:
      He glared malevolently at the shining porcelain, and then shook his head lugubriously.
    • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 [], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
      They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.

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