malignantly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]malignantly (comparative more malignantly, superlative most malignantly)
- In a malignant manner.
- 1797 February 25, John Williams, “Dedication. To the Noblemen and Gentlemen Constituting That Very Honorable Society, Called, The Literary Fund.”, in The Pin-Basket to the Children of Thespis. With Notes Historical, Critical, and Biographical., London: […] H. D. Symonds, […]; and T. Bellamy, […], page 10:
- So miserably fallen is the faculty of the nation, that the greater portion of the books which are annually published are made or compiled, and not conceived; and if an original work appears, to flash upon the region of dulness, the bibliothetic dolts meanly and malignantly confederate to limit its influence, and destroy its character—an evil which they are enabled to perpetrate so effectually, by their power and their number, that the mightiest Genius, who disdains to pay homage to such unworthy grubs, or become a servile pensioner upon their illiberal and base establishments, must eternally retire from the mart of Letters, with desperation and a broken heart!
- 1913, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 1, in The Victorian Age in Literature:
- Macaulay was concerned to interpret the seventeenth century in terms of the triumph of the Whigs as champions of public rights; and he upheld this one-sidedly but not malignantly.