Significado de malice em inglês

malice

noun [ U ]

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/ˈmæl.ɪs/ us

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/ˈmæl.ɪs/

the wish to harm or upset other people:

There certainly wasn't any malice in her comments.

formal I bear him no malice (= do not want to harm or upset him).

with malice aforethought law specialized

To illegally harm someone with malice aforethought is to have thought about it and planned it before acting.

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(Definição de malice do Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

malice | Dicionário Americano

malice

noun [ U ]

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/ˈmæl·ɪs/

the intention to do something wrong and esp. to cause injury:

An employee would have to prove an employer acted out of malice in order to sue.

(Definição de malice do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Exemplos de malice

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Is it plausible that we should, as a priority, eliminate hazards caused by malice?

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In fact, there is not very much evidence of over-enthusiastic exclusion, for ignorance, malice or sin.

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The 1559 royal injunctions specified only sin and malice.

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The general style here has something of the air of a 'petite malice' about it.

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However, other virtues and vices such as honesty and malice are not relative in this respect.

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However, recorded exclusion on any ground was less frequent after 1604 : even if ignorance became rarer, it is hard to believe that sin and malice did too.

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If its actions are to be viewed as deliberate deception to cover its own malice, then the court moved more cannily than it is generally given credit for.

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The other is that she or he does not cause harm as a purely practical means of gaining greater wealth or prestige, but from motives of malice and spite.

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We now touch the spot 43 (malice) with the electrode with the red cable and have to experience how the person gets angry more and more and becomes intolerable.

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You have spent your lives in creating class war, hatred, enmity, malice, spite and uncharitableness.

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