What does malice mean?

Definitions for malice
ˈmæl ɪsmal·ice

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venomnoun

    feeling a need to see others suffer

  2. malevolence, malevolency, malicenoun

    the quality of threatening evil

Wiktionary

  1. malicenoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Malicenoun

    Etymology: malice, French; malitia, Latin.

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

    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.

ChatGPT

  1. malice

    Malice is a strong feeling or intention to intentionally harm, injure, or cause suffering to someone else, usually motivated by anger, spite, or ill-will. It typically involves a deliberate disregard for the well-being or rights of others and can manifest in various actions or behaviors intending to inflict harm or damage. Malicious acts can include physical violence, deceit, sabotage, defamation, or any other deliberate act that causes harm or distress to another person.

Webster Dictionary

  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

Wikidata

  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.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  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. malitiamalus, bad.]

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  1. claime

  2. maleic

  3. melica

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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. Iris Murdoch:

    Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  2. Jack Holland:

    Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

  3. Aldous Huxley:

    Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

  4. Sir Winston Churchill:

    Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

  5. Wilmer Sanchez:

    I'm taking cash out now. And I've been transferring to my other account, not at Banesco, just in case, this is malice. They've been wanting to take over Banesco for a while.

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