malice

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Badness; bad quality.
2. n. Evil; harm; a malicious act; also, evil influence.
3. n. A propensity to inflict injury or suffering, or to take pleasure in the misfortunes of another or others; active ill-will, whether from natural disposition or special impulse; enmity; hatred: sometimes used in a lighter sense. See malicious, 1.
4. n. In law, a design or intention of doing mischief to another; the evil intention (either actual or implied) with which one deliberately, and without justification or excuse, does a wrongful act which is injurious to others.
5. n. Synonyms Ill-will, Enmity, etc. (see animosity); maliciousness, venom, spitefulness, depravity.
6. To regard with malice; bear extreme ill-will to; also, to envy and hate.
7. n. The common dwarf mallow, Malta rotundifolia.

Wiktionary

1. n. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.
2. n. (Law) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.
3. v. obsolete To regard with extreme ill will.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. feeling a need to see others suffer
2. n. the quality of threatening evil