How To Use Malice In A Sentence
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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
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Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice:
Ulysses
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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
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At the same time, through uncaring ignorance or malice, they brought about the extinction of numberless species of native flora and fauna.
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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.
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If the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the one accused, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.
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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
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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.
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Consumed by class envy and full of malice, they piled on as soon as they got the news.
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I see outlets that make fun of furries in manners that range from gentle fun-poking to outright malice.
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The gaiety with which they had set out had somehow vanished; and yet there was no enmity or malice between them.
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His ingeniously plotted stories, some of which drew on themes from English and Scandinavian folklore, typically portrayed safe and ordered worlds invaded by terrifying agents of unappeasable supernatural malice.
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If malice aforethought is lacking the unlawful homicide will be manslaughter.
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The basis for this whole interrogation is to determine if she has the extensive and extraordinary ability and sensibility to apply our laws to the issues brought before our Supreme Court, without malice or personal prejudice.
Sotomayor: Judges have different task than what citizens expect
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I never see a face more full of malice and uncharity.
Erema
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Somewhere there is a desert ruled by a sun that knows no malice, a sun that never scorches; warm, healing, nurturing, smiling softly down with love for all that is beneath it and all who pass through it.
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Whilst I am being held by the sleep of despair and darkened with the mist of malice, do thou, O precursor, restore me with thy bright intercession and grant that I may beseemingly walk as in the clay of virtues.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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There was such malice in her voice that Cat involuntarily took a step back.
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They displayed their immaturity, their envy and spite and malice, in refusing to condemn this act of terrorism.
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Before we come to the words used, I set out the judge's findings on malice.
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Once again Grace spoke quietly, with absolutely no venom or malice, or any emotion at all.
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Such objections as that the accused, at the time of the arraignment, is undergoing a sentence of a general court-martial, or that owing to the long delay in bringing him to trial he is unable to disprove the charge or to defend himself, or that his accuser was actuated by malice or is a person of bad character, or that he was released from restraint upon the charges are not proper subjects for motion prior to plea, however much they may constitute ground for a continuance or affect the questions of the truth or falsity of the charge or of the measure of punishment.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
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You could smell him in the stalls - and the stench was of malice, menace and danger.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has no message, but entertains with wit, cunning, malice and a wicked twist in the tale.
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The forwarder is an attorney-in-training who knowingly and with (quite literally) malice aforethought disclosed private correspondence in order to damage an ex-friend’s reputation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Caution About Sending E-Mails — and About Trust
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He would show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed.
Henrik Ibsen
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Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
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Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
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Sanzone said the judge ruled there was not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to show the boy acted with malice or premeditation, meaning that he would have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter if he had been older.
News for Lynchburg News Advance
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Include the outsider illegal entry of examination of sound out, malice attack, and internal and legal customer of illegal more power behavior.
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You may be a victim of malice, spite and slander as friends and associates indulge in negative gossip.
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So White Fang could only eat his heart in bitterness and develop a hatred and malice commensurate with the ferocity and indomitability of his nature.
The Enemy of His Kind
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If a letter is potentially libelous, slanderous or appears to have been written with malice or harmful intent, it will be edited or rejected.
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I remember them alleging malice, pride and duplicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Princess became somewhat alarmed; she was besides extremely good-natured, nor had her intentions of leading the old man into what would render him ridiculous, been so accurately planned with malice prepense, as they were the effect of accident and chance.
Count Robert of Paris
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Other circumstances in addition thereto must exist to allow the trier of fact to infer malice.
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Whether they are actuated by folly and anile devotion, or whether by arrogance and malice so that they alone may be held to possess the secrets of God, I know not: this much I do know, that I find in their writings nothing which has the air of a Divine secret, but only childish lucubrations.
Theologico-Political Treatise
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In short, no envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness; no vice, or meanness, or cheating, or any of the abominations of the planet Terra, and _we come from that planet_.
A Honeymoon in Space
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The unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially with premeditated malice.
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Why does not the cheated publican beg leave to check the gulosity of his defrauder with a repetatur haustus, and the pummelled plaintiff neutralise the malice of his adversary, by requesting to have the rest of the beating in presence of the court, -- if it is not that such conduct would run counter to all the conclusions of experience, and be the procreation of the mischief it affected to destroy?
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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There was no malice intended, only genuine interest.
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They were like set pieces in their ongoing battle that these days was devoid of any real malice.
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Malice and heartburning were out of the question with a lissom, winsome, witching fairy like this, who played with her life as a child does with soap-bubbles, and who was as elusory and irresponsible as a summer-day rainbow.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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For example, John (a Yankees fan) premeditates, with malice aforethought, to kill Mark (a Red Sox fan), because John is still angry about the 2004 ALCS.
Waldo Jaquith - Point/counterpoint on hate-crime legislation.
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An indiscretion or mistake committed by the press should be examined first as to whether it was free of malice or an intentional action, he said.
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Callaghan did not act out of any malice or evil intent.
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The big one just stared and the little one maintained that there was no malice intended.
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She would, with malice aforethought, stop a plow to send Sarah to a quilting, and then, the Captain's foot would come down in earnest, and he'd "wonder whether there was a woman in the world that wouldn't lose a crop to give her daughter a sugar-tit!
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
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But most of the responses had been triggered by greed, some sort of fantasy delusion, whimsy, or malice.
THE WAILING WIND
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As to the Times, we similarly conclude that the facts do not support a finding of actual malice....
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Arbitrariness, malice, or bias are examples of improper considerations.
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To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
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His words are spoken quickly, but there is no evidence of direct malice in his tone.
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His eyes did not hold the malice they held that day in the forest.
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The lumbering giant turned about, it's piggish face framed with an expression of pure malice.
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Yelled Lori, with pure malice in her eyes.
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It bore an expression which might truly be called fiendish, for it gave the idea of mental power, of cruelty, of malice, of intense -- of supreme despair.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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If we were at home, I wouldn't doubt it was made with malice aforethought.
ABHORSEN
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He hoped she grew out of her hatefulness one day, and hoped that there was a good reason why she was so full of malice and spite.
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It was not disputed that the words were spoken on a privileged occasion, but the plaintiff alleged that the privilege was defeated by malice on the defendant's part.
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The infringer of malice registration and use should undertake civil, administrative and criminal responsibility.
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Consequently it limited the damages in such cases unless the plaintiff proved actual malice.
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All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Cracktastic: Wanted’s Timur Bekmambetov Directing Moby Dick | /Film
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I searched my soul for any malice that could have provoked his words, but found none.
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But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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Murder, deceit, and malice await Sara when she comes to visit her great-aunt Contessa Belzoni in Venice of the 1880s.
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He read, Kin to a brownie, a boggart is a house spirit of no malice but of endless mischief.
The Boggart and The Monster
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The cap seeks to limit the damages imposed to punish a defendant found to have acted with malice.
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But most of the responses had been triggered by greed, some sort of fantasy delusion, whimsy, or malice.
THE WAILING WIND
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In very rare cases, the allegation may be unfounded, made out of malice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frederick 'which he thinks demanded' another more easy Dress, 'but, in truth, it can only be attributed to the most verjuiced spite and personal malice.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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Twenty percent of the damages were found to be attributable to the laying of the charges for which no damages were recoverable because of the findings the defendants' conduct was not actuated by malice.
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As he tells the BBC, there's no point undertaking a project out of malice as it usually ends in bad results.
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It seemed to look back at her mockingly, and eventually, she realized that she didn't have enough malice to withstand such devilry and took her defeat gracefully.
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Sometimes Yir Massir would take out a chetah -- a nasty, snarling, pin-headed piece of long-legged malice -- and walk him up and down on a dog-chain, same as a woman walks her King Charlie.
It, and Other Stories
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No, Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others.
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There's a difference between thinking someone's strategies are wrong, and thinking them a knave who acts from ignorance at best, and more likely acts from malice.
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Could a jury properly directed, and seeking dutifully to comply with the relevant directions, conscientiously reach a conclusion that the applicants were actuated by malice or not?
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If your client is who I think he is, then the jury needs to know it because he would have been fleeing and he would have tried to kill the sheriff and he would have tried it with what you call malice in mind.
Come the Spring
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Lord President Stair; and the lampoon, which is written with much more malice than art, bears the following motto:
The Bride of Lammermoor
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The defences of qualified privilege and comment will only be defeated when a plaintiff demonstrates that the defendant was motivated by express malice.
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-- When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says un reguise.
Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
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They are true believers - dogmatists - who view opposition to their views and values as malice, ignorance, or stupidity rather than as a reflection of honest and respectable disagreement.
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Tariq turned to Maritza next, his expression determined but washed of malice.
The Good House
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Nevertheless if the claimant proves that the defendant was actuated by malice this defence will fail.
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{No fee could compound for such a calamity.} 'Twas a feeless fight, finished in malice,
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
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Some of them were actually aggressive, convinced that anyone who dissented from the view that their child was a genius must be motivated by malice.
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Their turpitude purveys to their malice; and they unplumb the dead for bullets to assassinate the living.
Selections from _Letter to Noble Lord_
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Ho, thou the Wazir,171 in our talk yesternight thou toldest me that thou hadst a device whereby thou couldst defend us from the malice of the King of Hind.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
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He was pale, but his careworn expression could not disguise the malice in his eyes.
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There were whispered rumors that went even farther than these -- rumors which I dare not even set down here, for the busy tongues that dealt so mercilessly with the name and fame of Eliza Floyd were not unbarbed by malice.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.
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A finding of malice is a necessary component of murder.
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You could smell him in the stalls - and the stench was of malice, menace and danger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Proof by the claimant that the defendant was actuated by express malice removes the privilege.
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He wanted to cheat his confederate, and his confederate had cheated him; but far from bearing him malice for having done so, the sbirro views the conduct of the lazzarone in the light of an exploit, and feels an additional respect for him in consequence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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II. i.146 (403,3) put on the vouch of very malice itself] _To put on the vouch of malice_, is to assume a character vouched by the testimony of malice itself.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
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There was a soupcon of malice in her remark.
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She said carefully, though the malice in her tone wasn't easy to hide.
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Webster's defines aforethought adequately, with a reference to the relevant legal term: ‘Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.’
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Besides a foolish and feeble pride, an impertinent prating, froward and insociable humours, superstition, and a ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them, I find there more envy, injustice, and malice.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 14
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He shows no sympathy and much malice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The eyes darted suspicion and malice at him and the nose was wrinkled in distaste.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Cheating, boasting, malice and spite - my sons are blessedly free from all of these.
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First by reason of the very inclination of a vicious habit which we call malice, and, in this way, to sin through malice is not the same as to sin against the Holy
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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No, the ‘pot, meet kettle’ comment is intended to point up your blatant hypocrisy … not surprising that you fail to understand it, although whether your obtuseness is a result of malice of just plain stupidity is a subject for further debate.
Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’
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As the same fate awaited the wife of the delator also, unless she recanted, we have here an example of three, possibly four, persons suffering capital punishment on the accusation of a man actuated by malice, solely for the reason that his wife had given up the evil life she had previously led in his society (St. Justin Martyr, II, Apol., ii).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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In Talk To Her he is greatly aided by the performance of Camara who plays Benigno as an innocent man child devoid of guile of malice.
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As it was, its thick grey walls and twin turrets gave it a look of defensibility, as though it were here despite the quiescent malice of the forest.
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Her eyes would call him -- without malice or intention, no doubt, but your early Briton ceorl or earl would be as well understood by her.
The Shuttle
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Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice.
The Paris Sketch Book
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Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
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His eyes stayed hooded, dark with ancient malice, and the sigils tattooed on pale cheeks itemed grotesque as knotted spiders.
Shadowfane
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There was a smack of malice in her reply.
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I am aware of the weakness of democracy, of its occasional stupidities and shallowness, its temptation to prefer the rabble-rousing spell binder, its habit of giving way to envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness.
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He has not a particle of malice in him.
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I searched my soul for any malice that could have provoked his words, but found none.
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He was childlike in his behaviour, in that there was no malice behind it.
Times, Sunday Times
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He grunted in agonizing pain, and looked at the unremorseful Ryuko with malice and hate in his formerly emotionless eyes.
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But he said there was no malice and no intent to injure the Blues midfielder.
The Sun
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It could fairly be stated that, in his time, Stewart at least peeked into a couple of life's darker corners, but with mischief more than malice.
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In law the term malice and its adverbial form maliciously have two meanings: "legal malice" (also known as "malice in law"), and
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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.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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The custumals of Ipswich and Yarmouth provided for fines, temporary suspension from, or even deprivation of, office in the case of sergeants who failed to perform their duties or who stirred up malice between members of the community.
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How anyone can view this as anything other than unconscionable malice is beyond me, but regardless of my opinion on the matter, god could just as easily have decreed that women are intellectual equals to men, and that they should be afforded the same rights as men in Israelite society.
Harlan Ellison on God
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This bill is obviously a clear example of an expression of malice and prejudice against gay, lesbian, transgender, and transsexual people.
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Johnny nodded, his eyes glittering with malice.
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Similarly the doctrine of transferred malice applies to the liability of accessories.
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The word ‘malice’ in that definition does not mean the word ‘malice’ in the common acceptation or parlance implies.
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Hugo says the sinner is "bound down by obduracy of soul, and by the penalty of future damnation"; the grace of God frees man from the darkness brought on by sin, while the absolution of the priest delivers him from the penalty which sin imposes — "The malice of sin is best described as obduracy of heart, which is first broken by sorrow, that later, in confession, the sin itself, i.e. the penalty of damnation, be remitted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Boots had done it, — no doubt without malice prepense; but he had done it; and now that the Greenes were once more known as moneyed people, he turned upon me, and told me to my face, that I had desired that box to be taken to my own room as part of my own luggage!
Tales of all countries
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She did it out of sheer malice.
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The square of Mars to Saturn induce him to be obstinate and a little willful, a tincture of malice remaining in him.
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Fitzwood's case is that when the trustee made its decision… it was actuated by malice -
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Everything about the tower was sharp, angular, like the harsh contortions of a concentrated face lined with spite and malice.
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He referred to Robinson as a 'darkie', not because of any racial malice, but just because that's the way things were then.
Number 42
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Cary took him by the hand, and asked pardon of him for his scoffing, saying that he had that day played the best man of all of them; and Jack, who never bore malice, began laughing in his turn, and — “Oh, Mr. Cary, we have all known your pleasant ways, ever since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school.”
Westward Ho!
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The man before us smiled warmly before showing us a toothy grin of pure malice and evil.
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I bear no malice towards your people.
Times, Sunday Times
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It shows how much hatred, malice, and uncharitableness there lies behind the complaints of many anti-motorists.
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But most of the responses had been triggered by greed, some sort of fantasy delusion, whimsy, or malice.
THE WAILING WIND
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I did by accident not of malice prepense; and quoth he,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Likewise, slandering, talebearing, exaggerated gossip and creating dissensions - all this gives rise to the filth of malice and ill will.
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There is no lingering malice or unexpressed resentment lurking among the ulterior motives of this sign.
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The thought that I might myself be confined there by some accident (a misunderstood order, for example, or some unsuspected malice on the part of the portreeve) recurred no matter how often I pushed it aside.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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They scoff, and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression.
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For there is no doubt, but an evil choice (the thing here meant by malice) is that which greatens the impiety and guilt of an action into the nature of presumption; which action, done out of a sudden incogitancy, might pass for but a weakness, and so stand rated at a much lower pitch of guilt.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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It was said without any hard intent, she thought, without malice aforethought.
THE SCAR
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Pointed malice colored his words, while one tan, knobby hand began fingering the hilt of a poniard that jutted up from his broad, black belt.
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Rossetti said of all his male friends, Hughes was the sweetest and had the most ingenuous nature, the least carking and querulous, and the freest from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness.
Archive 2008-03-01
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When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say
Les Miserables
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It means that we are subjects of jealousy and envy and malice and spite and hatred.
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Yet Lawrence was just as much himself when he was telling me stories of Dean Swift that were full of malice and brutality and orgiac ecstasy.
Irish Plays and Playwrights
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Sean saw me first, and elbowed Mark in the side, who snapped his head up angrily, saw me, and smiled in a way I had never seen a mix between mischief and malice.
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There was as yet no evidence of malice on the part of its crew: only a kind of ceremonious irreverence.
Dirge
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His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiendlike malice.
Chapter 24
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She certainly bears you no malice.
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His flattened hand drifted in a gesture of evanescence, of stealthy malice.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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For you will remember that it is only four or five days since his advocates of malice prepense attacked me with slanderous accusations, and began to charge me with practice of the black art and with the murder of my step-son Pontianus.
The Defense
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We know we harbor the same malignancy and malice, the same greed and injustice that we detest in others.
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We came together to urge those who claim the name of Christ to "put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you" (Ephesians 4: 31-32).
Jim Wallis: Seven Steps to Civility This Election Season
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THAT the author of the said work applied himself to his task in malice prepense and with wickedness aforethought; a fact which, your Dedicator contends, is sufficiently demonstrated, by his assuming the name of Quiz, which, your Dedicator submits, denotes a foregone conclusion, and implies an intention of quizzing.
Sketches by Boz
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THE number of sins a person may commit is well-nigh incalculable, which is only one way of saying that the malice of man has invented innumerable means of offending the Almighty -- a compliment to our ingenuity and the refinement of our natural perversity.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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If men of the first rank have a malice against any, they think it policy to employ others against them, and to play least in sight themselves, because of the odium that commonly attends it; but Ananias is not shamed to own himself a sworn enemy to
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Fear, violence, heredity, temperament and pathological states, in so far as they affect free volition, affect the malice and imputability of sin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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black white or brindle they are all bitchy - it comes from their personal sense of pique when they deem their dereistic entitlements are not realised upon which they dump their malice on the nearest target usually men
MRA, Feministing, and Racism
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with malice aforethought
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Manes of threaded fog leaped and bowed with balletic malice, embracing the adversaries, whispering promises of beautiful demise into their unheeding ears.
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He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
The flavor of words and phrases ...
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Malice is commonly understood, in the popular sense as spite or ill-will.
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The glance of cruel meaning which the tyranness, after having examined the lithe, twisted rod critically for an instant, cast upon the object of her malice, probably banished the last lingering hesitation from the breast of the latter, -- who turned away ostensibly to the performance of her accustomed duties, but in reality to settle the details of a crime unsurpassed in coolness and resolution by aught recorded of pirate or highwayman.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
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It infuriated her that in their old age they should suddenly have become the target of malice -- unexpected, hurtful malice.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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The second key to understanding Capote's malice involves what Mr. Schultz calls "table-turning," or "pre-emptive abandonment"—hurt them before they hurt you.
Strange, If Tru
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Keene was at no loss to recall inoffensive phrases; in another long speech, full of cajolery sufficiently artful for the occasion, he represented himself as having merely protested against misrepresentations obviously sharpened by malice.
Demos
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All that maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy me, are visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Barack Obama.
Ferraro Resigns From The Clinton Campaign
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If one be found to have killed another, the great thing inquired into, is the inclination indulged, the intention; whether or no it was through malice propense.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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The difference is that the policy is accidental, a product of pragmatism rather than malice.
Times, Sunday Times
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I bear no malice towards anybody.
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However, the malice and hatred Enrico and I had for each other continued and the battle dragged on.
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In English law, I think calling her a ‘dumbhead’ could be defended as fair comment as long as he can show that he didn't say it with malice, and that it is simply his honest opinion.
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“My charity I own cannot invent an excuse for the prepense malice with which the character and service of this gentleman are murdered,” Madison wrote of Morris in June.
Robert Morris
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It encourages spite and malice, and suggests that the Church of England has sex on the brain.
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I've never fancied chop suey, not since someone told me with malice aforethought that it's Chinese for `mixed bits '.
KICK BACK
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What I can tell you is that neither malice nor spite appears to be a motivating factor in any of their maneuvers.
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It seems loike to have a malice again't young ans, -- an 'it ommost kills my poor dame here at thoughts on't, and soa thou sees we're forc'd to flitt like.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Actual malice is also relevant to the quantum of damages.
Archive 2009-10-01
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These misconceptions have come not from people whose intentions include malice or discourtesy but from friends who are simply curious.
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Glistening tear-washed eyes implored: the infant fiend of malice and all uncharity transforming itself into a radiant newborn cherub.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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The tiny smile held no malice, no spite, but not much warmth either.
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In all cases, except where actual malice is shown nevertheless, the impugned statement is not actionable if it is the truth or is fair comment or is protected by privilege.
Archive 2009-10-01
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As a babe is without malice negatively, so you must be positively and by actuation, that is, full of love and meekness; as the babe is unresisting, so must you be docile, and so on.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our mutual malice and animosities which have caused this incurvation.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
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Surely there are some serious satanist people, who wish to lead the world into arrogance and unappreciation of God, a rejection of the true way we should live on earth, without greed, pride, lust, hatred, malice and envy.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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He was strong enough now to attribute the man's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice.
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Still, that would not have answered; even the biographer's enemy could not be cruel enough to ask him to let this real grievance, this compact and substantial and picturesque figure, this rawhead-and-bloody-bones, come striding in there among those pale shams, those rickety spectres labeled WET-NURSE, BONNET-SHOP, and so on -- no, the father of all malice could not ask the biographer to expose his pathetic goblins to a competition like that.
In Defence of Harriet Shelley
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'I really don't think it was altogether what you call malice, so much as the Lester idea of fun,' said Ellen, recovering herself after her outpouring.
Chantry House
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She is smoldering, playful, and flirtatious with a streak of malice.
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Isherwood's bright-eyed alertness, his lack of malice, his genial delight in the foibles of others all make him lovable.
