Kindness and Malignance

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Kindness noun - An act of kind assistance.

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Malignance is an antonym for kindness.

Nearby Words: kind, kindly, kindliness

Malignance noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

Usage example: in meting out the harsh sentence, the judge cited the exceptional malignance and ruthlessness with which the rape was committed

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Kindness is an antonym for malignance in topics: sin, hate, severe dislike.

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