The word 'malignity' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means the quality or state of being malevolent or malicious. Example: The politician's malignity was evident in her speeches, where she often attacked her opponents with false accusations.
Powell notes that G. K. Chesterton "wrote about the malignity of inanimate objects," and then adds that she thinks "they are malign because they take up so much of my time dusting, polishing and cleaning them".
That is a malignity Americans have fought wars to kill.
It takes its cue from some of Iago's quizzical statements and "motiveless malignity" but definitely steps outside Elizabethan conceptions and presents a distinctly 19th-century air.
The hatred and malignity with which Canning was assailed by the Tory aristocracy in 1827 showed what prejudice still existed against a prime minister born outside the governing class.
As Edmund's sibling, perhaps Trevor White could make his oscillations between brotherly love and malignity a little less obvious.
But what makes him so truly scary is the quiet flickers of warped malignity that Ben Mendelsohn gives him.
The book's first location, Dead Water Lake, is as bleak as its name suggests, introducing a narrative shot through with icicles of human malignity.
Empson, in the same period, beginning in the fatal nineteen-forties, became the most articulate critic of a morality reduced "to keeping the taboos imposed by an infinite malignity," in which the reintroduction of human sacrifice as a sacred principle left the believer with "no sense either of personal honour or of the public good".
It is specifically to a man of Solzhenitsyn's religious imagination that one looks for a subtler, far less localized sense of the potential of disinterested evil, of sacrificial, abstract malignity in the human fabric.
Certainly, this malignity does still fester in the proclamations of Hamas and Hezbollah; and Berman deftly summarizes a revisionist history that emphasizes "centuries of Muslim cruelty toward the Jews," challenging the conventional view that European-style anti-Semitism was unknown under the Ottoman Empire.
