Malevolence


Synonyms for malevolence
noun ill will

enmity
indignity

malice
evil

hatred
hate

Antonyms for malevolence

liking
benevolence
goodwill

kindness
love
like

loving
charitableness

Synonyms
noun hatred

grudge
spite
antagonism

enmity
hostility
spleen

malice
evil
bitterness

animosity
rancor

Antonyms

good will
friendship
friendliness

benevolence
goodwill
love

sympathy
kindness
charitableness

Concept Thesaurus for word malevolence
2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections
Synonyms – noun

malevolence
diskindness
bad blood
malice
despite
gall
virulence
hardness of heart
cruelness
ferocity
truculence
torture
affront (disrespect)
intolerance
[Julius Caesar].

bad intent
ill nature
enmity
malice prepense
resentment
venom
mordacity
heart of stone
brutality
barbarity
ruffianism
vivisection.
outrage
persecution

bad intention
ill will
hate
maliciousness
uncharitableness
rancor
acerbity
obduracy
savagery
inhumanity
evil eye
ill turn
atrocity
tender mercies [ironical]

unkindness
ill blood
malignity
spite
incompassionateness
rankling
churlishness (discourtesy) [more]
cruelty
ferity
immanity
cloven foot
bad turn
ill usage
“unkindest cut of all”

Synonyms – verbs

be malevolent
harbor a rudge
hurt (physical pain)
wrong
disoblige
worry
bait
hunt down
oppress
ill-use.
dip one’s hands in blood

bear spleen
bear malice
annoy
do harm to
malign
harass
tease
dragoon
grind
wreak one’s malice on
imbrue one’s hands in blood

harbor spleen
betray the cloven foot
injure.
do an ill office to
plant a thorn in the breast.
haunt
throw stones at
hound
maltreat
do one’s worst
have no mercy

bear a grudge
show the cloven foot.
harm
outrage
molest
harry
play the devil with
persecute
illtreat
break a butterfly on the wheel

Synonyms – adjectives

malevolent
ill-intentioned
evil-minded
malign
spiteful
envenomed
uncharitable
galling.
unfriendly
uncandid

unbenevolent
ill-natured
evil-disposed
malignant
mordacious
acrimonious
maleficent
harsh
ungracious
churlish (uncourteous)

unbenign
ill-conditioned
black-browed.
rancorous
caustic
virulent
venomous
disobliging
inofficious
surly, sullen

ill-disposed
ill-contrived
malicious
despiteful
bitter
unamiable
grinding
unkind
invidious

Synonyms – phrases
cruel as death; “hard unkindness’ alter’d eye” [Gray]; homo homini lupus [Plautus]; mala mens, malus animus [Terencel.; “rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind”
Antonyms

benevolence

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