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malice

/ˈmælɪs/ verb C2
  1. To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.

He/she/it malices · Past maliced · Past participle maliced · -ing form malicing

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Verb forms

Base form
malice
He/she/it
malices
Past
maliced
Past participle
maliced
-ing form
malicing

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I see nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 108 · B2
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 540 · C1
What had she done to excite the malice of an enemy?
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 997 · C1

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