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malignancy
  1. The state of being malignant or diseased.
  2. A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
  3. That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The demon shows himself occasionally as an amusing companion, but we are left in no doubt as to the malignancy of his intentions.”
      “Histology revealed that the gastrocolic fistula had originated from a peptic ulcer of the stomach, and no evidence of malignancy was found.”
      “All the control lymph nodes were removed as part of radical surgeries for malignant disease conditions and were negative for malignancy.”
malignity
  1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
  2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?”
      “To form a safe and satisfactory judgment of the proper remedy, it is absolutely necessary that we should be well acquainted with the extent and malignity of the disease.”
      “Yet it's not the malignity of some papers, but the mentality of their readers, that is the problem.”
malignant
  1. A deviant; A person who is hostile or destructive to society.
malignin
  1. (biochemistry) A recognin found in most malignant cancer cells.
malignment
  1. The act of maligning something.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For the BBC to stoop so low to suggest that there's tampering going on is a gross malignment of the reputable TV company who make Millionaire.”
      “Many of the insults go well beyond the accustomed malignment of political opponents and are better labelled as character assassination and demonization.”
maligner
  1. Someone who maligns
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It would be quite superfluous to follow this maligner in the details of this, and a subsequent attack in an agricultural journal.”
      “Slowly they turned their heads to look at the fence, upon the other side of which stood the maligner of their eyes.”
      “She proves her innocence by going before the king and swearing that her maligner has stolen one of her golden slippers.”
malignance
  1. malignancy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Their society has been infected by a pathogenic cuteness of such malignance as to put at risk all that is truly beautiful.”
      “Three-dimensional data can be used to spot and investigate the malignance of tumors.”
      “Surely beneficence and malignance are both at play in the contemporary world, at every level.”
malignances
malignments
  1. plural of malignment
malignancies
  1. plural of malignancy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The most common childhood malignancies are acute lymphoblastic leukemia, central nervous system tumors and lymphomas.”
      “These cells are suspicious for several malignancies including lung cancer and lymphoma.”
      “Immunophenotyping in the clinical laboratory is emerging as an advantageous way to separate and classify leukemic malignancies.”
malignants
  1. plural of malignant
  2. Examples:
    1. “I do not recognize, beside the class of the good and the wise, a permanent class of skeptics, or a class of conservatives, or of malignants, or of materialists.”
      Malignants being again brought into places of power and trust, he demitted his office.”
malignities
  1. plural of malignity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The cabal which gathered head against Bajazet could only whisper its malignities when mithridate appeared.”
      “One of them is strapped to a chair and forced to watch clips of human folly — fights, beatings, and other common malignities.”
      “Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vices and malignities.”
malignins
  1. plural of malignin
maligners
  1. plural of maligner
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's not simply, as the maligners would have it, a moneygrabbing procedure.”
      “Kevin also gives himself the opportunity to vent a lot of anger and frustration out at the film industry, Internet maligners and, um, more Internet maligners.”
      “In recent years, the internet has provided a new medium for malcontents and maligners to spread fiction as fact to a wide swath of the public through mass distributed e-mails.”
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