Definitions for malignancy

malignancy ma·lig·nan·cy

Spelling: [muh-lig-nuh n-see]
IPA: /məˈlɪg nən si/

Malignancy is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 371 anagrams from letters in malignancy (aacgilmnny).

Definitions for malignancy

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being malignant.
  2. malignant character, behavior, action, or the like:
  3. a malignant tumor.

Origin of malignancy

First recorded in 1595-1605; malign(ant) + -ancy

Examples for malignancy

If she was as good as she is bad there would be nothing to say against her; but her malignancy is intolerable.

The malignancy of publishers, however, could not turn me back.

But the negro spoke sullenly, and there was still a sparkle of malignancy in his look.

And it seemed that alcohol and tobacco worked together in toxic synergy to produce the malignancy.

She did not see his face change and contort itself into malignancy.

In poetry the characteristic most often attributed to a snake is malignancy.

malignancy was rampant and Arnold was pursued with great bitterness.

It stood for something, in each of them, which gnawed their minds like a malignancy.

Of the malignancy of their wit, we must preserve one specimen.

What could save him if I disappointed the malignancy of Madame.

Word Value for malignancy
Scrable

18

Words with friends

23

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