[ UK /mˈælɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈmæɫəs, ˈmæɫɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. feeling a need to see others suffer
  2. the quality of threatening evil
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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.
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