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Another word for malice

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malice

n.

spite, rancor, animosity, maliciousness, hate, ill-feeling, hostility, grudge, implacability, bitterness, antipathy, umbrage, repugnance, dislike, resentment, venom, acerbity, mordacity, malignance, malignity, bad blood, viciousness, pure cussedness*, dirt*, cat bite*; see also evil 1, hatred 1, 2.

Antonyms kindness*, benevolence, goodness.

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Another word for malice

noun

A desire to harm others or to see others suffer:

despitefulness, ill will, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, venomousness, viciousness. See attitude

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She recoiled inwardly at the malice in his eyes.
Actions done with malice have no good intention.
Once this goodwill had been shown, he bore no malice towards those who rendered him his liberty by preferring Gambetta.
If a person commits a crime with malice, they did it on purpose.
Parents should never want their children to do bad things out of malice.

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