malice
/ˈmælɪs/ noun C2- Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune. · Your voice positively drips malice.
- An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.
Plural malices
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I see nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of Mr.
There is no gainsaying the fact that a very unfavorable construction would have been put upon the circumstance if the two women had gone without escort, while the addition of a third, in the person of her mother’s admitted lover, enabled Mademoiselle Danglars to defy malice and ill-nature.
What had she done to excite the malice of an enemy?
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