Malevolence N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness^; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity &c 889; hate &c 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense^; maliciousness &c adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c 900. uncharitableness &c adj.; incompassionateness &c 914.1

malevolently &c adj.; with bad intent &c n.. Phr. cruel as death; hard unkindness' alter'd eye

sharp-tooth'd unkindness [Lear].

[Dryden]; drink down all unkindness

Forgive me now, dear sister, all the anger I have shown, And all my past unkindness, through the years already flown; I'll love thee faithfully and true, and lay all harshness by; To be my loving sister, then, wilt thou not also try?

He spoke of Messer Bartolommeo's harshness and of the unkindness of Bianca's stepmother, Madonna Lucrezia de' Grimani-Contarinithe Patriarch's sister.

She is a faithful creature, but she is notyes, without any unkindness I must say that Mrs. Steadman is not a genius!' 'Oh, Steadman, you must not fail me!

Miss Casey herself, so it seemed to Hefty, was rather fond of Moffat; but he could not tell for whom she really cared, for she was very shy, and would as soon have thought of speaking a word of encouragement as of speaking with unkindness.

But his kindred had ascertained that he was now rich, and they repented of their unkindness towards him.

It is not from any unkindness on your part.

It led her to unkindness, falsehood, and disgrace.

Those men treated me with great unkindness.

Upon this, her mother pointed out to her the unkindness of refusing so small a favor to her sister; and in the hope of bringing her to a sense of her fault, she told her what had passed in the morning, and made known to her the whole affair of the work-box.

He acknowledged it but claimed forgiveness on the grounds of love, his love for her which had been goaded to mad jealousy by her thoughtless unkindness, her love for him which would not desert him no matter what he did.

He would not willingly utter a word which would savor of unkindness towards him.

The owner, I doubt not, had at least as much kindness as myself; but he was so used to see the slaves living without common comforts, that the idea of unkindness in the present instance did not enter his mind.

She bade him prize his own more happy lot, and seemed to wish to make all possible excuses for the unkindness and undutifulness of her only son.

"In an other example of the same kind, the earth, AS a common mother, is animated to give refuge against a father's unkindness.

And thenwith the usual logic of the passions, and forgetting the part of silence and disguise that he had playedhe taxed her with levity and unkindness in so soon preferring the captain to himself.

By the oak and ash and thorn, By the rowan tree, This was done ere we were born: Kith nor kin are we Of the folk whose blindness Shut you out with scathe and scorn, Banished with unkindness.

Furthermore, to this letter was appended the following: "DEAR SIR,After thanking Heaven for your safe return I must accuse you of great unkindness in refusing us the pleasure of seeing you this night.

She had felt very keenly the desertion of her second and her fourth sons, who had run away from home when the elder was barely eighteen, and without previous quarrel or unkindness so far as was known; nor was it believed that they had ever come to see her since, or sought her forgiveness.

On the other hand, almost all chimneys can be made to smoke by a careless nurse, who lets the fire get low and then overwhelms it with coal; not, as we verily believe, in order to spare herself trouble, (for very rare is unkindness to the sick), but from not thinking what she is about.

And you will find that their unreasonable intensity of suffering from unkindness, from want of sympathy, &c., will disappear with their freshened interest in the big world's events.

Harold, I would fain that no shadow of unkindness should linger between us twain when I am gone.