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malice

/ˈmælɪs/noun2 syllables

Malice means: feeling a need to see others suffer.

Synonyms for malice11

noun, as in feeling a need to see others suffer

maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom

noun, as in the quality of threatening evil

malevolence, malevolency

also used for malice

evil, ill will, wickedness, envy, grudge

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What does malice mean?2

noun

1

feeling a need to see others suffer

2

the quality of threatening evil

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with malice?3

two syllables

palacedallascallous
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Malice in a sentence

  • He jostled me unintentionally, not out of malice.GeeZ
  • You were sincere and innocent, and bore no malice to one another.ddnktr
  • There was no malice in what he did.Eldad
  • Ben spread a rumor about me out of malice.CP
  • There was no malice intended in what she said.Jesse
  • Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.deniko
  • Such things are often a result of accident rather than malice.AlanF_US
  • The opposition is rubbing their hands together in malice.whitefishglobal

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Forms of malice

as a noun

plural
malices