单词 | malice |
释义 | malice (once / 307 pages) n Malice is the intention to cause harm. If someone feels malice toward you, look out! They've got bad intentions. Just like the Spanish mal, this is a word for badness or evil. Malice isn't just any evil, though: it's evil done intentionally by someone seeking to do harm. People feel malice for people they hate. Malice is even stronger than spite. Out of all the emotions and thoughts you can have, malice is one of the most dangerous. Just about every villain in every movie and TV show is full of malice. WORD FAMILYmalice: malices, malicious+/malicious: maliciousest, maliciously, maliciousness, unmalicious USAGE EXAMPLESWith Lincoln, who, in his second Inaugural Address, promised a government that ruled “with malice toward none, with charity toward all.” New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Even if the Passions lack malice toward Jews, they treat them more as metaphors than as human beings. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Aavaire Johnson on Thursday with manslaughter, aiming without malice, careless discharge of a weapon and felony firearm. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1n feeling a need to see others suffer Syn|Hyper maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom malevolence, malignity wishing evil to others 2n the quality of threatening evil Syn|Hypo|Hyper malevolence, malevolency bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty cruelness, cruelty, harshnessthe quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance beastliness, meannessthe quality of being deliberately mean brutality, ferociousness, savagery, viciousnessthe trait of extreme cruelty murderousnesscruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder evil, evilness the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
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