Meaning of malice in English
(Definition of malice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of malice from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of malice
malice
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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I believe that there is malice in this.
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Matters that he could look into include, among many other things, a failure to observe rules, and malice towards the person concerned.
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We know that that was not done with malice aforethought.
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If they act in good faith, honestly and without malice, they will have nothing to worry about.
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I am sure that there was no malice in that letter, and that it was a pure coincidence.
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悪意…
kasıt, kötü niyet, kötülük…
malice, méchanceté…
malícia…
kwaadaardigheid…
ondskabsfuldhed…
illvilja…
niat jahat…
die Böswilligkeit…
ondskap, nag, sjikane…
злоба…
злоба, злость…
حِقد…
zloba, nepřátelství…
kejahatan…
ความมุ่งร้าย…
ác ý…
złośliwość…
악의…
malevolenza, malignità, malanimo…
