Civility and Malignity

Civility

Civility noun - An act or utterance that is a customary show of good manners.

Malignity is an antonym for civility.

Malignity

Malignity noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.
Usage example: one of the characters in the novel is a slave driver of such malignity that he came to be one of the most famous villains in all of literature

Civility is an antonym for malignity.

Nearby Words: malign, malignancy, malignly
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