malignant

malignant
adjective
  1. (of a disease) very virulent or infectious
    （疾病）致命的；传染性强的
    ■(of a tumour) tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after removal; cancerous
    （肿瘤）恶性的，癌变的；复发的。 与 benign. 相对
  2. malevolent
    恶毒的
    in the hands of malignant fate.
    在厄运掌握之中。
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malignantly
adverb
语源
  1. mid 16th cent. (also in the sense 'likely to rebel against God or authority'): from late Latin malignant- 'contriving maliciously', from the verb malignare. The term was used in its early sense to describe those sympathetic to the royalist cause during the English Civil War
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