Noun
malevolence (countable and uncountable, plural malevolences)
- Hostile attitude or feeling.
to show someone malevolence
He said it with malevolence.
2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:Esai Morales appears as the enforcer for “the entity‘’ and brings such simmering malevolence to the character that he should have been the villain instead.
- Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.
Translations
hostile feeling and attitude
- Armenian: չարակամություն (hy) (čʻarakamutʻyun)
- Belarusian: варожасць f (varóžascʹ), нядобразычлівасць f (njadóbrazyčlivascʹ)
- Bulgarian: злоба (bg) f (zloba), неприязън (bg) f (neprijazǎn)
- Catalan: malevolència f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: kwaadwil m, vijandigheid (nl) m, moedwil (nl) m, misgunst m, malevolentie f
- Finnish: pahantahtoisuus (fi)
- French: malveillance (fr) f, hostilité (fr) f
- Galician: malevolencia f
- German: Böswilligkeit f, Missgunst (de) f
- Greek: εμπάθεια (el) f (empátheia), κακοβουλία (el) f (kakovoulía), μοχθηρία (el) f (mochthiría)
- Ancient: κᾰκοθῡμίᾱ f (kăkothūmíā)
- Italian: malevolenza (it) f
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bedniyetî (ku) f, belakirrî (ku) f
- Latin: malevolentia f
- Lushootseed: sbabibəɬ
- Macedonian: зло́ба f (zlóba)
- Navajo: iiníziin
- Old English: yfelwillendnes f
- Polish: wrogość (pl) f, złowrogość (pl) f
- Portuguese: malevolência
- Romanian: rea-voință (ro) f, ostilitate (ro) f, pizmă (ro) f
- Russian: злопыха́тельство (ru) n (zlopyxátelʹstvo), недоброжела́тельность (ru) f (nedobroželátelʹnostʹ), вражде́бность (ru) f (vraždébnostʹ)
- Spanish: malevolencia f
- Welsh: malais (cy) m
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