as in malice
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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Recent Examples of malignancy
Metastatic pancreatic cancer patients who received a targeted pill from Revolution Medicines lived nearly twice as long as patients who received chemotherapy, a striking result in an especially deadly and intractable malignancy.
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Jason Mast,
STAT,
13 Apr. 2026
An effective treatment for pancreatic cancer would represent a major advance against one of the most lethal malignancies.
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IEEE Spectrum,
22 Dec. 2025
The researchers will now investigate its efficacy in breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and other malignancies, and fine tune delivery and dosage methods.
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New Atlas,
16 Dec. 2025
Watch it for its skin-deep enticement, its powerful visual devices, but also its concealed malignancy.
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Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for malignancy
Jason Mast,
STAT,
13 Apr. 2026
An effective treatment for pancreatic cancer would represent a major advance against one of the most lethal malignancies.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Dec. 2025
The researchers will now investigate its efficacy in breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and other malignancies, and fine tune delivery and dosage methods.
—
New Atlas,
16 Dec. 2025
Watch it for its skin-deep enticement, its powerful visual devices, but also its concealed malignancy.
—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for malignancy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for malignancy
Noun
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Although Ashley had alleged things like malice, ill-will and improper motives by Adam, that still fell short of proving that Adam knew that his statements were false.
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The documentary explores the dark web of fraud, deception and malice that led Parker to feign a pregnancy to try to bolster her relationship with boyfriend Wade Griffin — and when her fake due date passed, kill Hancock for her baby, Braxlynn Sage.
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Public Luxury is less a dissertation on those tenets than an emotional response to the struggle to achieve it—mouths dripping with venom, eyes swollen with tears, hearts heavy with love.
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One common misconception is that lionfish are inedible because of their venom.
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Disciples of this extremist hatred are running for office and winning in select primaries.
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But to the man himself, comedy is—like life—first and foremost about hatred of death.
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According to the Sheriff’s Office, a judge released Cruz on his own recognizance June 4 following his arraignment on felony animal cruelty charges in Sacramento Superior Court.
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At one point, the narrator, embarrassed by his own act of cruelty, gives a sobbing woman all his money and then leaves her alone in a hotel room.
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“Malignancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malignancy. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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