Malevolent Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Malevolent crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on April 3 2023 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Malevolent has a total of 4 letters.

RankAnswerCluePublisher
99%EVILMalevolentWall Street Journal
20%Malevolent humanoidWall Street Journal
20%DESPOTMalevolent leaderWall Street Journal

Definition

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:

  • Wall Street Journal: Apr 3, 2023
  • Thomas Joseph: Mar 4, 2023

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