malice

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

malice (uncountable)

1. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
   • 1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:

     […] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.

Synonyms

• ill will
• wickedness
• evilness

Derived terms

• malicious

Related terms

• malady

Translations

intention to harm

Armenian: քեն (hy) (k’en) Chinese: Mandarin: 惡意 (cmn), 恶意 (cmn) (èyì) Croatian: màlīcija (hr) f., zlòba (hr) f., pȁkōst (hr) f., zlòća (hr) f. Czech: zlomyslnost (cs) f. Dutch: kwaadaardigheid (nl) Esperanto: malico (eo) Finnish: pahantahtoisuus (fi), ilkeys (fi)

German: Boshaftigkeit (de), Böse (de) Icelandic: illgirni (is) f., meinfýsni (is) f. Italian: malizia (it) f. Portuguese: malícia (pt) f. Russian: злой умысел (ru) m. Serbian: pakost, zloba, zlonamernost, zlurad Spanish: malicia (es) Swedish: illvilja Ukrainian: злий умисел (uk) m.

External links

• malice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• malice in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• claime, maleic

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmalitse/
• Hyphenation: mal‧ice

Adverb

malice

1. maliciously

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French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malitia.

Noun

malice f. (plural malices)

1. mischief
2. malice

References

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