Definitions for malice
ˈmæl ɪsmal·ice

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 3 votes

1. malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venomnoun

   feeling a need to see others suffer

2. malevolence, malevolency, malicenoun

   the quality of threatening evil

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. malicenoun

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Malicenoun

   Etymology: malice, French; malitia, Latin.

   1. Badness of design; deliberate mischief.

   God hath forgiven me many sins of malice, and therefore surely he will pity my infirmities. Jeremy Taylor, holy living.

   2. Ill intention to any one; desire of hurting.

   Duncan is in his grave;
   Malice domestick, foreign levy, nothing
   Can touch him further! William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

2. To Maliceverb

   To regard with ill will. Obsolete.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   The cause why he this fly so maliced,
   Was that his mother which him bore and bred,
   The most fine-fingered workman on the ground,
   Arachne, by his means, was vanquished. Edmund Spenser.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. Malicenoun

   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. Malicenoun

   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. Maliceverb

   to regard with extreme ill will

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1. Malice

   Malice is the name of four separate fictional comic book supervillains in the Marvel Comics universe. The original Malice was a minion of Killmonger, an enemy of Black Panther. The second was a short-lived Ghost Rider villain. The last two villains bearing the name Malice are disembodied entities, the first of which possesses Susan Richards of the Fantastic Four, and the second is an evil mutant appearing in X-Men comics.

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1. Malice

   mal′is, n. ill-will: spite: disposition to harm others: deliberate mischief: intention to harm another.—adj. Malic′ious, bearing ill-will or spite: moved by hatred or ill-will: having mischievous intentions.—adv. Malic′iously.—n. Malic′iousness. [Fr.,—L. malitia—malus, bad.]

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Matched Categories

1. • Evil
   • Malevolence

Anagrams for malice »

1. claime

2. maleic

3. melica

How to pronounce malice?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of malice in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of malice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of malice in a Sentence

1. Eric Hoffer:

   There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

2. Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor):

   Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.

3. Tonya Conn:

   I've been doing rescues since 2004, we see a lot of starvation and a lot of cruelty, but that was the most horrific scene I've ever been on. Just cold-blooded malice.

4. Ken Mapp:

   If they purchased it and on these forms they said their use was for agriculture purposes, which is the only legal way they could use it, and then brought them into the territory and used them in commercial and residential buildings, that's a clear and malice violation of the law.

5. Jed Rakoff:

   I think this an example of very unfortunate editorializing on the part of New York Times, the law here sets a very high standard( for actual malice.) The court finds that that standard has not been met.

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