Sentence examples for malevolent intent from inspiring English sources

You can know how to perfectly execute a ritual, but if you have malicious or harmful intentions, there is a chance of this malevolent intent backfiring at your expense.

I've learned that innocent questions often mask malevolent intent.

One reason many humans will assume malevolent intent is that it's what we know.

Anyone anywhere with malevolent intent is now 'suspected of being a Muslim'.

And most of those readers did eventually forgive the deceit, because they knew there was no malevolent intent behind it.

As a law-school student, he copied from a law-review article, though he has said that he was careless about attribution and had no "malevolent" intent.

The neonatal fontanel (caamutwe) is widely considered to be an important channel of communication between the newborn and ancestral spirits, and every participant stated that no matter the environmental temperature, all newborns should wear hats all the time to protect the fontanel both from injury and from the malevolent intents of other individuals.

Are there always malevolent intentions behind enslaving another?

The hero is a child whose parents have been killed by a shadowy malevolent figure intent on imposing his dark view of the world.

On the other hand, the demons and evil spirits that generally influence man in his role as a terrestrial being (rather than in his destiny as a supraterrestrial being) are viewed in popular piety and somewhat in theological reflection as malevolent in intent.

The point is, peaceful or malevolent in intent, extraterrestrials have succeeded, at the very least, in not destroying their species with the advanced weaponry they inevitably developed.