malice
[noun]
Synonyms: ill will, animosity, enmity, evil intent, hate, hatred, malevolence, spite, vindictiveness

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Contrasted words: benevolence, benignancy, benignity, charity, kindliness, kindness
Related Words: bane, poison, venom, bile, animosity, animus, antipathy, down, enmity, hate, hatefulness, hatred, invidiousness, meanness, bitterness, resentment, umbrage

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mal‧ice /ˈmæləs, ˈmælɪs/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin malitia, from malus 'bad']

1. the desire to harm someone because you hate them
with malice
His eyes gleamed with malice.
sheer/pure malice
She did it out of sheer malice.
James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her).

2. with malice aforethought law with the deliberate intention of doing something that is against the law

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

malice
noun
ADJ. pure, sheer
VERB + MALICE bear (sb), feel, have He bore me no malice. She felt no malice. She has no malice in her.
PREP. out of ~ She sacked him out of sheer malice.
with/without ~ ‘You're lying,’ he said, without malice.
~ towards I bear no malice towards anybody.

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