malice
desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others.
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To label the law in Florida or the similar one in Georgia using that term is to be displaying bias, we are told, to be claiming — with purported malice — that a full glass is a half-empty one.
It is obviously accurate to refer to the Florida voting law as ‘restrictive’ | Philip Bump | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostShe never acts out of malice — Ramona is sometimes angry but never cruel — but rather out of sheer curiosity and enthusiasm for life.
Celebrating Ramona Quimby’s enduring appeal, in honor of Beverly Cleary | Constance Grady | March 26, 2021 | VoxThey meant no malice, and I am still friends with these people.
Be Bold, Be Proud, Speak Up: Raising Asian American Daughters Now | Susanna Schrobsdorff | March 21, 2021 | TimeThis does not happen with malice, but rather through inattentiveness to Campaigns, especially at the granular level of the ad units and keywords.
Google Ads Auto Applied Recommendations: Every setting, explained | Chris Boggs | February 4, 2021 | Search Engine LandAll my Sunday School teachers in that little church, they didn’t have any malice, they were well-intended people teaching what they believed.
Former Avalon singer on coming out, getting ousted and where he is today | Joey DiGuglielmo | October 20, 2020 | Washington Blade
It was a review of Lady Macbeth, and it dripped with malice.
There may be a number of reasons for such a move beyond pure malice.
Homicide or Accident in Tony Stewart’s NASCAR Scandal? | Robert Silverman | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPolish them until they gleam with malice, wicked glee, and non-registry gifts.
The First-World Anarchist’s Guide to Weddings | Kelly Williams Brown | May 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy does Rivers' joke have the sting of deliberate shock without any of the other joke's malice?
But a small, important minority of these social-media clues portend real pain, struggle, even malice and disaster.
Could Facebook Have Prevented the Georgia Baby Shooting? | Joshua DuBois | March 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTO wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousHis avarice was disgusting beyond words, and with avarice went a tendency to underhand dealing, harshness, and malice.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonHe could see the unconcealed delight, and the malice that had always been, but which before he had been able to ignore.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxThe term malice means something more than "the intentional doing of a wrongful act to the injury of another without legal excuse."
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesBut this way of dealing with the message was far too mild and moderate to satisfy the implacable malice of Howe.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for malice
/ (ˈmælɪs) /
the desire to do harm or mischief
evil intent
law the state of mind with which an act is committed and from which the intent to do wrong may be inferred: See also malice aforethought
Origin of malice
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