Malice

Definitions: Malice

Malice

Noun

1. Feeling a need to see others suffer.

2. The quality of threatening evil.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "malice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Malice

Enmity

Verb: be inimical; Adjective: keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice; fall out; take umbrage; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.

Hate

Umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice; implacability; (revenge).

Owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice; (malevolence); conceive an aversion to, take a dislike to.

Malevolence

Wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel; dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no mercy; a.

Verb: be malevolent; Adjective: bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot.

Noun: malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity; hate; malignity; malice, malice prepense; maliciousness; Adjective: spite, despite; resentment.

Resentment

Have a fling at; bear malice; (revenge).

Revenge

Keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.

Crosswords: Malice

French (archness, devilment, malice, mischief, mischievousness, wickedness).

The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future. (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

One scoundrel indisputable with hatred and malice for all. Now mount up and go do that voodoo that you do so well. (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger)

I pray you, in your letters; when you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of them as they are. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak of one that lov'd not wisely but too well. (Othello; writing credit: William Shakespeare)

Palace Malice (1965)

Malice in the Palace (1949)

The North Wind's Malice (1920)

Hatred and Malice Envy (1911)

La Boîte � malice (1903)

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Books

• Acts of Malice (reference)

• M Is for Malice (reference)

• Malice in Miniature: A Dorothy Martin Mystery (reference)

• Malice Prepense (reference)

• Suspicion of Malice (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Absence of Malice (reference)

• Malice (reference)

• Sexual Malice (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Malice (reference)

• Scourge of Malice (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Malice (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And here we have the plain difference between the state of nature and the state of war, which however some men have confounded, are as far distant, as a state of peace, good will, mutual assistance and preservation, and a state of enmity, malice, violence and mutual destruction, are one from another. (Second Treatise of Government)

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I speak here without malice, and to ease my conscience.

The malice of evil glittered in their hard eyes, as they moved hither and thither, trailing their long tails behind them.

His little eyes glittered with malice.

To clear up which I endeavored to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches, of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice and envy.

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Civil Liberties

Moldova

Under the Court's 1999 ruling, parties filing lawsuits must prove that the information was false and defamatory and published recklessly or with intentional malice. (references)

Hong Kong

In so doing, the Court effectively overturned a 150-year old guideline for defamation cases and called for a more generous approach toward the defense of fair comment by ruling that honest remarks, even those made with malice, could still be construed as fair comments. (references)

Jordan

The amendments reinforce existing Penal Code restrictions on free speech and allow for the prosecution of any person found to have written, published, or aired any statements "harmful to national unity; instigating criminal actions; sowing the seeds of hatred and malice; inciting divisions among members of the society; instigating acts of religious and racial fanaticism; insulting the dignity of individuals, their reputation or personal freedoms; committing acts of corruption or publishing false information or rumors; inciting people to organize strikes or sit-ins, or to hold meetings in a manner that violates the law; or committing any act considered harmful to the state's reputation and dignity." The amendments give the State Security Court the authority to temporarily or permanently close any publication or media outlet that publishes or airs any such statements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "malice": bear malice ♦ malice aforethought ♦ Malice prepense ♦ of malice aforethought ♦ of malice prepense ♦ with a malice aforethought ♦ with malice aforethought ♦ with malice prepense ♦ without a grain of malice. Additional references.

Beginning with "malice": malice-rating.

Albanian

mëri (down, grudge, ill feeling, spite), shpirtligësi, ligësi (atrocity, badness, devilry, deviltry, evildoing, evilness, iniquity, mischief, rancor, rancour, viciousness, wickedness), keqdashje (ill will, malevolence, malignancy, viciousness, wickedness), inat (anger, blood, Dander, disappointment, down, dudgeon, ire, miff, must, pique, rage, rampage, rancor, rancour, spunk, temper). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حقد (animosity, antagonism, bear a grudge, bitter feeling, gall, grudge, hatred, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malignancy, malignity, rancor, rancour, spite, spitefulness, venom), ‏غل حقد (grudge, rancor, rancour, spite), ‏تعمد الأذي, ‏خبث (badness, evilness, foxiness, harmfulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, offensiveness, slyness, viciousness, virulence, wickedness, wiliness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умисъл (design, device, intention), злонамереност (mischievousness, wickedness), злоба (despite, devilry, grudge, malevolence, malignancy, malignity, rancor, rancour, spite, spleen, venom, virulence), зла воля (ill will, malevolence). (various references)

Chinese 

惡意 , �'心. (various references)

Czech

zlomyslnost (malevolence, malignancy, malignity, mischievousness, rancor, spite, viciousness), zlá vùle (ill will). (various references)

Farsi 

نفرت (Aversion, Disgust, Enmity, Hate, Hatred, Odium, Phobia), کینه توزی (Implacability), قصدسوء , عناد (Animus), بدخواهی (Malignancecy, Spite), بدجنسی (Acid, Malignancecy), بداندیشی . (various references)

Finnish

pahanilkisyys (spite), ilkeys (wickedness), ilkeämielisyys (malfeasance, mischief, spite), häijyys (ill will), häijynilkisyys (maliciousness). (various references)

French

malveillance (malevolence, malignancy, malignity), malice, méchanceté (malignancy), préméditation. (various references)

German

bosheit (cursedness, fiendishness, impishness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, mischievousness, nastiness, venom, wickedness), arglist (craftiness, cunning, fraud, guile). (various references)

Greek 

μοχθηρία (maliciousness, malignancy, mischief, virulence), χαιρεκακία (gloat, malevolance, malevolence). (various references)

Hebrew 

איב�" (animosity, enmity, hate, hatred, hostility, odium), ז�"ו� יות (malignancy, wickedness), רוע (badness, evil, vice, wickedness), רשעות (iniquity, injustice, malignity, vice, viciousness, wickedness). (various references)

Hungarian

rosszindulat (animosity, bitchiness, censoriousness, gall, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malignancy, malignity, mischief, mischievousness, spite, viciousness), rosszhiszeműség, rosszakarat (censoriousness, ill will, malevolence, malignancy, malignity, rancour, spite, spitefulness, viciousness). (various references)

Italian

malvagit� (evil, maleficence, malignity, villainy, wickedness), malizia (archness, cunning, mischief, trick), malignit� (anger, evil, fury, gall, hatefulness, malignancy, malignity, spite, spitefulness), malevolenza (ill will, malevolence, malignancy), livore (envy, hatred, spite), dolo (fraud, willful deception), cattiveria (badness, naughtiness, spite, unkindness, wicked action, wickedness), astio (grudge, hass, hate, hatred, rancor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

犯意 , 怨念 (grudge, hatred), 怨み (bitterness, grudge), 意趣 (grudge, spite), 悪気 (distrust, evil intent, ill feeling, ill-will), 悪意 (bad faith, evil intention, ill will, spite), 害意 , 害心 (evil intentions), 他意 (another intention, double-mindedness, fickleness, ill will, secret purpose, ulterior motive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たい (against, another intention, band, be crowned with, body, company, complying with, corps, double-mindedness, fickleness, form, ill will, image counter, keeping in mind, obedience, object, opposition, party, ratio, reality, receive, schnapper, sea bream, secret purpose, snapper, style, substance, the body, ulterior motive, versus), お�"ね�" (grudge, hatred), がいし�" (circumcenter, evil intentions, external communication, outer center), がいい (outer garment, periphery, surroundings), うらみ (bitterness, grudge, matter for regret, regret, resentment), いしゅ (different kind, extraordinary appearance, grudge, heterogenous, heterologous, spite), あくい (bad faith, evil intention, ill will, shabby clothes, spite), わるぎ (distrust, evil intent, ill feeling, ill-will), は�"い (extent, range, scope, sphere, spirit of rebellion). (various references)

Korean 

악의 (malignant, spite). (various references)

Manx

roon (confidence, obstinacy, resentment; rune, spite, viciousness), myskid (ill will, implacability, malevolence, rancorousness, resentfulness, resentment, spite, spiteful hatred, viciousness, vindictiveness, virulence), goanlys (malevolence, malignity, rancorousness, resentment, revengefulness, spite, viciousness, vindictiveness), drogh-chree (ill nature, malevolence), drogh aigney (bad faith, grudge, ill will, malignity), camman (grudge, pique). (various references)

Pig Latin

alicemay.(various references)

Portuguese

manha (craftiness, finesse, jiggery pokery, ruse, slyness, trickery, vice, whim), malignidade (felloe, malignancy, malinger, virulence, virus), maldade (badness, enormous, gall bladder, maleficent, malignancy, naughtiness, perversity, slyness, turpitude, unrighteousness, venom, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing), malícia (after-thought, archness, guile, maliciousness), málico, rancor (gall, gallant, grudge, rancor, rancour, spite), intenção criminosa. (various references)

Romanian

maliţiozitate (maliciousness), sarcasm (acridity, causticity, fling, mordacity, sarcasm, sneer), ranchiunã (grudge, rancor, rancour), rãutate (acrimony, archness, bad, badness, cattiness, cussedness, harm, ill nature, illness, malignancy, malignity, rogue, spite, venom, wickedness, wrong), potrivnicie (hindrance, hostility, misfortune), pizmã (envy, jealousy, malevolence), picã (acrimony, grudge, grudging, heart-burning, pique, quarrel, spades, spite), invidie (envy, grudging, heart-burning, jealousy, malevolence), intenţie criminalã. (various references)

Russian 

злоба (animosity, despite, devilry, grudge, malevolence, rancor, rancour, spite, venom, viciousness, virulence). (various references)

Scottish

mi-rùn (ill-will, spite), tnùth (bigotry, envy, jealousy), n� imhdeas (enmity, hostility), gamhlas (hatred, spite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zloba (despite, malevolence, rancor, rancour), podlost (knavery, vileness), pakost (malevolence, meanness, mischief), osvetoljubivost, inat (despite, grudge, spite). (various references)

Spanish

malicia (archness, cattiness, catty, maliciousness, mischief, mischievousness, naughtiness, slyness, wickedness). (various references)

Swedish

skadeglädje (gloat), illvilja (bad blood, ill will, malevolence, spitefulness), elakhet (cruelty, devilry, deviltry, evilness, malevolence, malignancy, meanness, naughtiness, spitefulness, unkindness, venom, wickedness). (various references)

Turkish

kötülük (badness, blackness, darkness, devilry, disservice, enormity, evil, harm, iniquity, malfeasance, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, perversity, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), kötü niyet (ill will, malevolence, viciousness, wantonness), haset (envy, gloating, green-eyed, grudger, grudging, jaundice, jealousy, the green-eyed monster), garez (down, grudge, ill will, rancor, rancour, spite, venomousness), fesat (agitator, corruption, depravity, intrigue, jaundiced, low-minded, mischief, plot, poisonous, sinister). (various references)

Turkmen 

hyяanat (evil, harm). (various references)

Ukranian 

злість (devilry, exacerbation, rancor, rancour, spite, venom, viciousness, wickedness), злочинний намір. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính hiểm độc (devilishness, maliciousness), ác tâm (ill-will, maleficence, malevolence, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy). (various references)

Welsh

malais, cynghorfynt (envy, jealousy). (various references)

livor, maliciosus, malignitas, malignitate, malignitatibus, malitia, malitiae, malitiam, malitias, malitiis. (various references)

anda. (various references)

malice. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "malice": malices. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Malice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amilcar, Hawlicek, Maaike, macile, magice, magiced, Magische, maglic, maglite, maice, Mailcom, mailee, malaca, malace, malade, Malaika, malakai, malase, malcic, malecon, Maleczek, Malekat, maliace, malic, malices, Malich, malien, malik, Malika, Maliki, Malile, Malinche, maline, Malinee, malise, mallace, mallic, Mallica, mallice, Mallika, Mallock, Malosse, manichee, mapic, maricic, Matica, Melica, melick, Melik, Melluci, Melucco, Melvich, milices, Milici, Miliyel, millime, Molacek, Muice, mulican, mulikai, salice, valice. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: amice, camel, claim, clime, email, ileac, macle, maile, malic, melic.

-2 letters: acme, alec, alme, amie, calm, came, ceil, clam, emic, ilea, lace, laic, lame, lice, lima, lime, mace, mail, male, meal, mica, mice, mile.

-3 letters: ace, ail, aim, ale, ami, cam, cel, elm, ice, lac, lam, lea, lei, lie, mac, mae, mel, mil.

-4 letters: ae, ai, al, am, el, em, la, li, ma, me, mi.

+1 letter: alembic, camelia, cembali, claimed, claimer, climate, decimal, declaim, exclaim, malefic, malices, medical, melanic, metical, micella, miracle, mycelia, reclaim.

+2 letters: alchemic, alembics, amicable, analcime, calamine, calamite, camailed, camelias, camellia, camisole, camomile, chemical, claimers, clammier, clematis, climates, climaxed, climaxes, creamily, decimals, declaims, exclaims, inchmeal, lechayim, leucemia, limacine, maledict, manciple, medallic, medicals, melanics, melodica, meniscal, metallic, meticals, metrical, micellae, micellar, millcake, millrace, miracles, misplace, mucilage, musicale, mycelial, mycelian, reclaims.

+3 letters: acclaimed, acclaimer, acclimate, alchemies, alchemist, alchemize, alchymies, analcimes, becalming, bicameral, calamined, calamines, calamites, calcimine, calmative, calumnies, camellias, camisoles, camomiles, campanile, chamomile, chemicals, claimable, clammiest, climbable, collimate, culminate, decimally, declaimed, declaimer, demonical, eclampsia, eclamptic, empirical, emplacing, exclaimed, exclaimer, facsimile, imbalance, implicate, lechayims, lemniscal, leucemias, luminance, malachite, maledicts, manciples, marchlike, masculine, medicable, medically, medicinal, melanitic, melanotic, melodicas, mercurial, mescaline, metabolic, metallics, militance, millcakes, millraces, miscalled, mislocate, misplaced, misplaces, mucilages, musicales, numerical, overclaim, piecemeal, polemical, policeman, reclaimed, sicklemia, simulacre, timescale, tularemic, unclaimed.

+4 letters: academical, acclaimers, acclimated, acclimates, accomplice, acrylamide, alchemical, alchemists, alchemized, alchemizes, aldermanic, allometric, alphameric, amerciable, anemically, animalcule, bimetallic, biomedical, cacomistle, calamaries, calamities, calcimined, calcimines, calmatives, calumniate, campaniles, caramelise, caramelize, catamenial, centesimal, centralism, ceremonial, chamomiles, chemically, chimerical, chlamydiae, chloramine, clambering, clamminess, clematises, climaxless, colemanite, collimated, collimates, combinable, commercial, compatible, complained, complainer, compliance, complicate, culminated, culminates, cumulative, decemviral, decimalize, declaimers, declaiming, demoniacal, dilemmatic, disclaimed, disclaimer, duodecimal, eclampsias, economical, ecumenical, emblematic, emetically, epidemical, epitomical, eremitical, exclaimers, exclaiming, facsimiles, germicidal, hemiacetal, hermetical, imbalanced, imbalances, immaculate, impeccable, impeccably, implacable, implicated, implicates, lambencies, lawrencium, legitimacy, lemniscate, luminances, machinable, malachites, maledicted, maleficent, malignance, manchineel, marcelling, masculines, mechanical, medicinals, megalithic, melanistic, melismatic, menacingly, mercantile, mercurials, mescalines, methodical, metrically, microscale, militances, misbalance, miscellany, mischannel, misclaimed, misclassed, misclasses, mislocated, mislocates, mosaiclike, musicalise, musicalize, nonmedical, normalcies, overclaims, phlegmatic, premedical, proclaimed, proclaimer, reclaiming, schmalzier, secularism, semantical, sicklemias, simulacres, specialism, timescales, ultimacies, umbilicate, unicameral, vermicular.

+5 letters: acclimatise, acclimatize, accomplices, acromegalic, acrylamides, aeromedical, aeronomical, alchemistic, alchemizing, ambivalence, amylopectin, analemmatic, animalcules, athleticism, beclamoring, bimetallics, bimolecular, biochemical, biometrical, blackmailed, blackmailer, blastematic, cacomistles, calorimeter, calorimetry, calumniated, calumniates, caramelised, caramelises, caramelized, caramelizes, catechismal, cavalierism, centralisms, ceremonials, chamberlain, chameleonic, chloramines, cleistogamy, clericalism, climacteric, colemanites, combatively, comedically, commercials, committable, communalize, compactible, compatibles, complainers, compliances, complicated, complicates, condimental, confirmable, criminalize, curtailment, cytomegalic, decimalized, decimalizes, declamation, demiurgical, demonically, diametrical, dimercaprol, diplomacies, disclaimers, disclimaxes, domiciliate, duodecimals, ectoplasmic, egomaniacal, elastomeric, embracingly, empirically, endemically, endoplasmic, enigmatical, enzymically, epithalamic, esemplastic, exclamation, gametically, gemological, geochemical, geometrical, glucosamine, hematologic, hemiacetals, hemophiliac, hexadecimal, homiletical, hypokalemic, illuminance, immedicable, immedicably, impeachable, implicative, incremental, infomercial, kinematical, lamellicorn, lawrenciums, lemniscates, logomachies, machineable, machinelike, macronuclei, maledicting, malediction, maledictory, malefaction, maleficence, malignances, malpractice, manchineels, mantelpiece, mariculture, marshalcies, masculinely, masculinise, masculinize, matriculate, mechanicals, medicinable, medicinally, medicolegal, megalomanic, meiotically, melancholia, melancholic, melodically, mentalistic, mercenarily, mercurially, meroblastic, mesalliance, mesopelagic, metaethical, metaplastic, metonymical, microflorae, microscales, militancies, mimetically, mineralogic, misalliance, misallocate, misbalanced, misbalances, miscellanea, mischannels, multiagency, multicoated, musicalised, musicalises, musicalized, musicalizes, myelopathic, nematicidal, nematocidal, nonchemical, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, numerically, oecumenical, overclaimed, paramedical, planimetric, polemically, policewoman, problematic, proclaimers, quitclaimed, reclaimable, reclamation, recommittal, retinaculum, schmaltzier, schmalziest, scopolamine, screamingly, secularisms, seismically, semiclassic, simulcasted, specialisms, spermicidal, subclimaxes, symmetrical, thalassemic, thermically, umbilicated, unclimbable, unempirical, unmasculine, unreclaimed, vermiculate.

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