malice
Meanings
Plural: malices
Noun
- feeling a need to see others suffer
- the quality of threatening evil
- Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
- An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.
Verb
- To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).
Synonyms
envy, evilness, grudge, ill will, malevolence, malevolency, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom, wickedness
Scrabble Score: 10
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