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malice
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
malice
(noun)
aforethought
(adjective)
malice
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mæləs/
noun
malice
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ˈ
mæləs/
noun
Britannica Dictionary definition of MALICE
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noncount
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:
a desire to cause harm to another person
an attack motivated by pure
malice
She claimed that her criticisms were without
malice
.
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with malice aforethought
law
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used to describe a criminal act that was deliberately planned to cause harm to someone
Murder is the killing of another person
with malice aforethought
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