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the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm
- her irrepressible malignancy was such that she even attacked her friends behind their backs
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“Malignancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malignancy. Accessed 24 Sep. 2022.
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The first known use of malignancy was in 1601
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