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English
Etymology
From malevolent + -ly.
Adverb
malevolently (comparative more malevolently, superlative most malevolently)
- In a malevolent manner; evilly.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 25:He glared malevolently at the shining porcelain, and then shook his head lugubriously.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
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