Crossword-Solution: MALEFICENT 10 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

And yet I seem to perceive that (with exceptions) those whom we would count gods were less maleficent.

Not even for the best ends would men now allow their governments such powers as were then used for the most maleficent." "Leaving comparisons aside," I said, "the demagoguery and corruption of our public men would have been considered, in my day, insuperable objections to any assumption by government of the charge of the national industries.

Instead of these maleficent circumstances, all now enjoy the most favorable conditions of physical life; the young are carefully nurtured and studiously cared for; the labor which is required of all is limited to the period of greatest bodily vigor, and is never excessive; care for one's self and one's family, anxiety as to livelihood, the strain of a ceaseless battle for life--all these influences, which once did so much to wreck the minds and bodies of men and women, are known no more.

They were in its very basis, and must needs become more and more maleficent as the business fabric grew in size and complexity.

But there is something—the only word that comes near it is _cancerous_—and that is not very near, about the whole of quap, something that creeps and lives as a disease lives by destroying; an elemental stirring and disarrangement, incalculably maleficent and strange.