Ill and Malignant

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Ill adjective - Causing or capable of causing harm.

Usage example: one of the ill effects of winter weather is the rapid spread of germs as people spend more time together indoors

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Malignant and ill are semantically related. in harmful topic. In some cases you can use "Malignant" instead an adjective "Ill".

Nearby Word: illness

Malignant adjective - Having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it.

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Ill and malignant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ill" instead an adjective "Malignant".

Tanith Lee's story "Yellow and Red": the protagonist spills alcohol on photographs of his recently-deceased tomb-raiding uncle and his family (all of whom were plagued by ill-health) to reveal a malignant shape - yellow, with red dots for eyes - that seems to have stalked them.

Source: Spooky Photographs
An amazing example in 1939 Tear Jerker Dark Victory, which uses words like "glioma", "growth", and "malignant", and kills off the Ill Girl at the end, but never says "cancer" or "brain cancer".

Source: The Disease That Shall Not Be Named

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