malevolency

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Noun

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malevolency - the quality of threatening evil malevolence, malicebitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness - malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nastycruelness, cruelty, harshness - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyancebeastliness, meanness - the quality of being deliberately meanevilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"