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Maleficence

noun
1.
Doing or causing evil.  Antonym: beneficence.
2.
The quality or nature of being harmful or evil.  Synonyms: balefulness, mischief.  Antonym: beneficence.






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"Maleficence" Quotes from Famous Books



... pirate, with a face like a ham and an eye like a fragment of glass stuck into it, leads a career of wholehearted crime that can only be described as sparkling. His unalloyed maleficence is adorned with a thousand graces of manner. Into the dark and fetid marsh that is an evil heart, where low forms of sentiency are hardly distinguishable from the all-pervading mud, Stevenson never peered, unless it were in the study of Huish ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson • Walter Raleigh



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