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Balefulness

noun
1.
The quality or nature of being harmful or evil.  Synonyms: maleficence, mischief.






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"Balefulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... at least natural grace, a deerlike step. Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... full upon him, and already she had something in the nature of a surprise for him; for so powerful was the still balefulness of her glance that he was slightly startled. "I might say not so," she said. "I might, if I was speaking of what pretty eyes you say yourself you ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington



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