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noun
1.
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.
2.
Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others.
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Malice
is always a great word to know.
So is opinion. Does it mean:
| the formal statement by a judge or court of the reasoning and the principles of law used in reaching a decision of a case |
| an agreement enforceable by law, originally applied to promises under seal; a bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed for payment of money |
Example Sentences
- Most dealers attribute these troubles more to ignorance than malice, although scammers are not unknown.
- The spines of cholla glow, their prickly malice deceptively rendered as a benign woolly aura.
- Of course, there also seems to be a bit of malice in their online shenanigans.
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| malice (ˈmælɪs) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the desire to do harm or mischief |
| 2. | evil intent |
| 3. | law See also malice aforethought the state of mind with which an act is committed and from which the intent to do wrong may be inferred |
| [C13: via Old French from Latin malitia, from malus evil] | |
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Word Origin & History
malice
c.1300, "desire to hurt another," from O.Fr. malice "ill will, spite," from L. malitia "badness, ill will, spite," from malus "bad" (see mal-). In legal use, "wrongful intent generally" (1540s).
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