Neither is there only a habit of goodness, directed by right reason; but there is in some men, even in nature, a disposition towards it; as on the other side, there is a natural
malignity. For there be, that in their nature do not affect the good of others.
Hence our eye is seldom, I am afraid, turned upward to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of
malignity; while we commonly look downwards on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.
At length youth and a happy constitution surmounted the
malignity, and I recovered my former health.
To form a safe and satisfactory judgment of the proper remedy, it is absolutely necessary that we should be well acquainted with the extent and
malignity of the disease.
The collection, I assure you, was an object lesson in human
malignity. This being has enough evil in his face to frighten even a strong man.
Their natural antipathy of temperament made resentment an easy passage to hatred, and in Philip the transition seemed to have begun; there was no
malignity in his disposition, but there was a susceptibility that made him peculiarly liable to a strong sense of repulsion.
"One great excellency in this tribe, is their skill at prognostics, wherein they seldom fail; their predictions in real diseases, when they rise to any degree of
malignity, generally portending death, which is always in their power, when recovery is not: and therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world, by a seasonable dose.
If, therefore, all the steps taken by the duke be considered, it will be seen that he laid solid foundations for his future power, and I do not consider it superfluous to discuss them, because I do not know what better precepts to give a new prince than the example of his actions; and if his dispositions were of no avail, that was not his fault, but the extraordinary and extreme
malignity of fortune.
When one thinks who and what- what trash- can cause people misery!" he said with a
malignity that alarmed Princess Mary.
He had seen during the two preceding days too much fury and
malignity in the eyes of old Gryphus to expect that his vigilance would relax, even for one moment.
She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the
malignity of the distemper--Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver.
Bumble, stopping short, and darting at his little charge a look of intense
malignity. 'Well!
malignity - wishing evil to others 
malignity - quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will