Malice
['mælɪs]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To regard with extreme ill will.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, rancor, venom, hate, spite, ill-will.
Checker: Muriel
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See GRAVE_and_FOOLISH]
Editor: Nicolas
Definition
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.
Typist: Naomi
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of entertaining malice for any person, denotes that you will stand low in the opinion of friends because of a disagreeable temper. Seek to control your passion. If you dream of persons maliciously using you, an enemy in friendly garb is working you harm.
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Examples
- We see so much malice and so little indignation in my profession. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You seem to come like my own anger, my own malice, my own--whatever it is--I don't know what it is. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I don't in any ways bear malice, I'm sure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Go, my lad; but remember not to bear malice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am unharmed: why should I bear malice? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I can't bear him—and yet, continued Helena reflectively, with a certain spice of malice, there is something nice about him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In that hour I should die, and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I bear no malice, no ill-will toward any individual that was connected with it, either as passenger or officer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She looked at him with a flash of her old malice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- That he had, from his birth, displayed no better qualities than treachery, ingratitude, and malice. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We feel no malice toward these fumigators. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Archer looked at him, and thought he saw in his gay young eyes a gleam of his great-grandmother Mingott's malice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Says you, Pumblechook went on, 'Joseph, I have seen that man, and that man bears you no malice and bears me no malice. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Celia was not without a touch of naive malice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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