malice

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That it escaped their malice was ascribed to miracle, but the miracle would have been greater if they had hit it At length, one of the ships, which had suffered most, hauled off and abandoned the fight.

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  1. noun A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
  2. noun Law The intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another.

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  • No person who wounded his self-esteem was too obscure to escape his vindictive malice, and no means that he could employ, providing it was legally safe, was too unscrupulous, too petty, to use to punish the offender. —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
  • He was trying to impress upon his own mind the incredible fact that this human being, lying helpless beneath him, watching him with questioning fear, had ruined him without the least personal malice--had robbed him of all he had strained, and worked, and fought for, for pay! —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
  • But when it is joined with envy and malice, against godliness and piety itself, who can stand before that? —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • “Laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings.” Truly, evil speaking of our brethren, though it may be true, yet it proceeds out of the abundance of these, in the heart, of guile, hypocrisy, and envy. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Envy, hatred, and malice were allowed to run riot there; love of dress and vanity were the idols enthroned on the altar; pride, disobedience, irreverence, contempt of rightful authority, idleness, and unfaithfulness were barring the door and keeping the loving Saviour, who stood knocking there, from coming into his own Bertie felt uncomfortable; the Holy Spirit was speaking to her, and she could not help but hear. —  Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life
 

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cruelty ·  hatred ·  envy ·  vanity ·  greed ·  stupidity ·  avarice ·  animosity ·  scorn ·  deceit ·  hostility ·  insolence
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin malitia, from malus, bad; see mel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English malice, from Old French malice, French malice = Spanish Portuguese malicia = Italian malizia, from Latin malitia, badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite, from malus, bad: see male.
  2. from malice, n.
 

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