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
Spleen
Spleen noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.
Usage example: the bill's failure to pass in the legislature was due to nothing more than partisan spleen
Nearby Word: splenic
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- anger and malignity
- anger and spleen
- resentment and malignity
- resentment and spleen
- hostility and malignity
- hostility and spleen
- wrath and malignity
- wrath and spleen
- animosity and malignity
- animosity and spleen
- bitterness and malignity
- bitterness and spleen
- malignancy and malignity
- malignancy and spleen
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