malice
pronunciation
How to pronounce malice in British English:
UK [ˈmælɪs]
How to pronounce malice in American English:
US [ˈmælɪs]
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- Noun:
- feeling a need to see others suffer
- the quality of threatening evil
Word Origin
- malice (n.)
- c. 1300, "desire to hurt another," from Old French malice "ill will, spite, sinfulness, wickedness" (12c.), from Latin malitia "badness, ill will, spite," from malus "bad" (see mal-). In legal use, "wrongful intent generally" (1540s).
Example
- 1. He went on to complain that bulgarians were full of doubt and malice .
- 2. If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies
- 3. Respondents contended that the facts of this case would not support a finding of actual malice .
- 4. Dr. arquilla argues that weapons systems controlled by software will not act out of anger and malice and , in certain cases , can already make better decisions on the battlefield than humans .
- 5. For their part british troops did kill a few of americans over the years but even the so-called boston massacre archer shows seems to have been a case not of malice but of soldiers panicking in the midst of a crowd throwing snowballs and sticks .