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語源

From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /məˈlɛvələns/

名詞

malevolence (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 malevolences)

1. 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^[1]:

     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.

2. Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.

同意語

• (attitude または feeling): ill-will, malice, spite

反意語

• benevolence

関連する語

• malevolent