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malignant

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Definition:
1. showing ill will or hatred
2. very harmful
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there was a gleam like the malignant gleam he saw in his wife's eyes.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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There was such a malignant enjoyment in her utterance of the last words, and she broke into such a disagreeable laugh, that I was at a loss what to say.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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