| The balance between benefits and risks is essential in order to determine when medical procedures are maleficent or not. |
| What were your first impressions of maleficent when you first watched Sleeping Beauty? |
| That aspect of the sky which they now regard as disagreeable they then beheld as maleficent. |
| The waters cover the earth, and all maleficent beings are drowned. |
| It is by turns infinitely benevolent and depthlessly maleficent. |
| According to the biblical mentality, the sea contained maleficent strengths, particularly threatening at the time of storms. |
