malice
/ˈmælɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.34 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
Uncountable
noun
An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Your voice positively drips malice."
- "[…] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead."
- "without the slightest flutter of malice in her round face."
- "The question that would have been before the jury was whether Fox committed “actual malice” in airing the claims. That required Dominion to show whether key decision makers were aware the claims were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth."
- "Thou blinded God (quod I) forgive me this offence, / Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence."
- "Who on the other ſide did ſeeme ſo farre / From malicing, or grudging his good houre, / That, all he could, he graced him with her, / Ne euer ſhewed ſigne of rancour or of iarre."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: malice, malitia