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UK
/mˈælɪs/
]
[ US /ˈmæɫəs, ˈmæɫɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈmæɫəs, ˈmæɫɪs/ ]
NOUN
- feeling a need to see others suffer
- the quality of threatening evil
How To Use malice In A Sentence
- There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
- Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice: Ulysses
- What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he is yours. Othello
- At the same time, through uncaring ignorance or malice, they brought about the extinction of numberless species of native flora and fauna.
- It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
- If the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the one accused, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.
- What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours. Othello, the Moor of Venice
- I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any person's cause for lucre or malice.
- Consumed by class envy and full of malice, they piled on as soon as they got the news.
- I see outlets that make fun of furries in manners that range from gentle fun-poking to outright malice.