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the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm
- the reviewer was criticized not for his negative review of the singer's album but for the malignance with which he expressed his disapproval of her lavish lifestyle
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“Malignance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malignance. Accessed 18 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of malignance was circa 1604
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