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Synonyms & Antonyms of malignance
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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The first known use of malignance was circa 1604
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