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malice

noun

mal·​ice ˈma-ləs How to pronounce malice (audio)
1
: desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
an attack motivated by pure malice
2
: intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse
ruined her reputation and did it with malice

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Malicious, Malevolent, and Malice

Malicious and malevolent are close in meaning, since both refer to ill will that desires to see someone else suffer. But while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious usually means petty and spiteful. Malicious gossipers are often simply envious of a neighbor's good fortune. Vandals may take malicious pleasure in destroying and defacing property but usually don't truly hate the owners. Malice is an important legal concept, which has to be proved in order to convict someone of certain crimes such as first-degree murder.

Synonyms

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malice, malevolence, ill will, spite, malignity, spleen, grudge mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress.

malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer.

felt no malice toward their former enemies

malevolence suggests a bitter persistent hatred that is likely to be expressed in malicious conduct.

a look of dark malevolence

ill will implies a feeling of antipathy of limited duration.

ill will provoked by a careless remark

spite implies petty feelings of envy and resentment that are often expressed in small harassments.

petty insults inspired by spite

malignity implies deep passion and relentlessness.

a life consumed by motiveless malignity

spleen suggests the wrathful release of latent spite or persistent malice.

venting his spleen against politicians

grudge implies a harbored feeling of resentment or ill will that seeks satisfaction.

never one to harbor a grudge

Example Sentences

All of this is about control, of course. While nicknames can just as easily be dispensed with affection as with malice, either way the practice is as stone alpha male as social interaction gets. Garry Trudeau, Time, 12 Feb. 2001 The killer that Capote himself became—far more efficiently than Perry and Dick—when, in poisonous prose and on talk-shows, he laid waste his friends and skewered his competitors with malice as pure as the air in an oxygen tent. Molly Haskell, New York Times Book Review, 12 June 1988 It isn't so much courage that I would need, as the patience to endure the grinding malice of bureaucratic harassment. Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1981 No doubt his natural floridity of face encouraged whispers, and partisan malice exaggerated them; but during the eighteen-thirties he certainly drank enough to invite the solicitude of his friends and the gibes of his enemies. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson, 1946 an attack motivated by pure malice She claimed that her criticisms were without malice. See More
Recent Examples on the Web The court dismissed Johnson’s suit on the grounds that in the absence of a showing of actual malice, . Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2022 Huntington patients often lash out physically at their caregivers — not out of malice, Benjamin Gilmer said, but because their brains are misfiring. Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022 Many policymakers around the world assume that employees breach security rules to get back at them out of malice. Ali Allage, Forbes, 11 July 2022 Not guilty of malice murder and he was acquitted of all charges relating to Tara's murder —convicted only of concealing her death. Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 24 May 2022 Mengele held no pity for anyone except himself, and Guez’s noxious portrait contains no redeeming detail to dissuade us of his toxic malice. Diane Cole, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 The Monday search of Trump’s home by FBI agents has caused a political furor, with Trump and many of his Republican defenders accusing the FBI of acting out of politically motivated malice. Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2022 The Monday search of Trump’s home by FBI agents has caused a political furor, with Trump and many of his Republican defenders accusing the FBI of acting out of politically motivated malice. Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022 Science is an enterprise built on trust, and in general, scientists do not attribute to malice what could be equally well explained by ineptitude. David Robert Grimes, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin malitia, from malus bad

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of malice was in the 14th century

Phrases Containing malice

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