malice
noun (malice)
Everyday
- Malice is the wish to hurt someone or make bad things happen to them. tree →
- (law) Malice is the intention to do harm when breaking the law. tree →
- Malice can also mean playful teasing that is not really meant to be unkind. tree →
In the lessons
In stories malice marks a villain; in ethics lessons, it separates a mistake from a cruel act done on purpose. Phrases: with malice, out of malice, without malice.
Examples
- The witch looked at the princess with malice. tree →
- He broke the toy by accident, not out of malice. tree →
- There was no malice in her joke. tree →
- The bully acted with malice. tree →
- «Malice aforethought» is an old legal phrase. tree →
- Gossip can be full of malice. tree →
Note
Uncountable. Adjective: malicious. In ethics, what someone meant (malice or an accident) matters a lot when judging what they did.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «malice» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «malice» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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