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n. (plural of malignant English)
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Malignants is a name used for the advisors of Charles I of England, chief among whom were Strafford and Laud; were so called by the Parliamentarians, who blamed them for the evils of the country; the name was afterwards applied to the whole Royalist party.
Usage examples of "malignants".
I was set upon by malignants, dismembered, and my parts suspended in a bag inside the rim of an active volcano.
The one big difference was that rather than a war between orcs and humans it was a war of malignants against benigns, with humans and orcs expendable by both sides.
He wanted not the minds of the soldiers fighting in the field but the officers and malignants who planned the strategy.
Kelvin began to feel a hope that they were actually driving the malignants home.
It must have been the influence of the malignants, he thought, and resolved to make things right for her.