Crossword clues for balefulness
balefulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balefulness \Bale"ful*ness\, n. The quality or state of being baleful. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being baleful.
WordNet
n. the quality or nature of being harmful or evil [syn: maleficence, mischief] [ant: beneficence]
Usage examples of "balefulness".
Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness.
Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as balefulness: the von Karajans were not to know that Alex regarded his parents, whom he held in vast respect and affection, with exactly the same expression.