'malevolency' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun form of the adjective 'malevolent', meaning having or showing a wish to do evil to others. Example: The malevolency of her actions was evident in the way she sabotaged her colleague's project to secure her own promotion.
The brooding figure of André, played with brilliant malevolence by Niels Arestrup, takes on the full demonic force that leads to tragedy.
For me, it registered as a dramatic manifestation of Ramsay's controlling malevolence and Sansa's suffering, which I presume was what was intended.
Fighting malevolence… the eternal battle between light and the dark.
Ali al-Ahmed, director of the IGA and author of a forthcoming work on Saudi textbooks, cites such examples as "The Jews and Christians are enemies of the believers", and "The Jews occupied Palestine with the help of the crusaders' malevolence towards Islam… But the Muslims will not remain silent".
Yet even as Eva recounts evidence of her son's malevolence at a young age, the reader is left with a galling question: would Kevin have fared better if his mother loved him more?It takes courage to adapt an epistolary novel for the screen, particularly one as psychologically complex as this one.
There was something different in the sheer epic malevolence of the thing: more than 3,000 dead, with destruction sliding out of a clear blue sky, all captured on live TV.
Where the government has tripped up so far, it seems to have been mainly from inexperience rather than malevolence.
In defence of your courageous prime minister and our common-sense president, to concede even a reasonable probability that someone of Saddam's malevolence had any programmes for producing weapons of mass destruction justified an aggressive and timely intervention particularly given Iraq's permeable borders and shady associations.
But he did not know what malevolence was.
As our own investigations make plain (see article), Mr Berlusconi is not fit to lead the government of any country, least of all one of the world's richest democracies.Many of Mr Berlusconi's supporters, who include most of Italy's businessmen, decry such criticism as born of naivety, ignorance and malevolence.
Evil is so insidious in no small part because it doesn't require malevolence at all.Mr Hertzberg really goes off the rails when he avers, later in his post, that "the filibuster...is a bigger threat to small-d democratic governance than the N.S.A., the C.I.A., and the I.R.S. put together".
