See Also: Malice(medicine)
malice(dictionary)
malice(dictionary)
Malice(law)
ACTUAL MALICE(law)
Malice Aforethought(law)
MALICE AFORETHOUGHT, pleadings(law)

malice (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin malitia, from malus 'bad']
the desire to harm someone because you hate them
with malice
::His eyes gleamed with malice.
sheer/pure malice
::She did it out of sheer malice.
::James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her) .
with malice aforethought
law with the deliberate intention of doing something that is against the law