Malice

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
  • n. Law The intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To regard with extreme ill will.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Badness; bad quality.
  • n. Evil; harm; a malicious act; also, evil influence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • n. Synonyms Ill-will, Enmity, etc. (see animosity); maliciousness, venom, spitefulness, depravity.
  • To regard with malice; bear extreme ill-will to; also, to envy and hate.
  • n. The common dwarf mallow, Malta rotundifolia.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. feeling a need to see others suffer
  • n. the quality of threatening evil
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    malicious   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bitterness    malignity    animosity    pique    grudge    ill will    virulence    spite    rancor    malevolence   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alice    Corvallis    Daedalus    Dallas    Palace    Pallas    allis    balas    ballasts    callous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cruelty    hatred    envy    vanity    greed    stupidity    avarice    animosity    scorn    deceit