malice
ma luhs
- n feeling a need to see others suffer
- n the quality of threatening evil
- Precisely because that malice must be proved, the lawyer argued, the defendant civil rights leaders must face trial.
- US claimed that Iraq's malice has an echo in other parts of the Middle East, exacerbating tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites.
- Though Linda did not intend malice, her sharp tongue did leave wounds, reducing Peter to tears.