MALIGNANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malignantly mean? 

• MALIGNANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb MALIGNANTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads

  Familiarity information: MALIGNANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALIGNANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads

Pertainym:

malignant (dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor))

 Context examples 

The hand continued slowly to descend, while he crouched beneath it, eyeing it malignantly, his snarl growing shorter and shorter as, with quickening breath, it approached its culmination.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His big fists were clenching and unclenching, and his face was positively fiendish, so malignantly did he look at Johnson.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He hated the chain that bound him, the men who peered in at him through the slats of the pen, the dogs that accompanied the men and that snarled malignantly at him in his helplessness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)