| 单词 | malice |
| 释义 | mal·ice I. 1. a. (1) < ruined her reputation and did it with malice > < rejoiced out of pure malice in seeing others suffer > — compare implied malice, malice aforethought, malice in fact (2) < theologians hold that the gravity of an offense against divine law depends on the degree of malice involved > (3) < in spite of all he has had to put up with from them, he bears them no malice > b. < with smiling malice asked her where she had been > 2. obsolete a. b. Synonyms: < from such persons no repentance was to be looked for. They were impelled by a malice or a fanaticism which clemency could not touch or reason influence — J.A.Froude > < she was clever, witty, brilliant, and sparkling beyond most of her kind; but possessed of many devils of malice and mischievousness — Rudyard Kipling > malevolence may suggest a cold deep hatred or enmity underlying wishes for evil for others < their society is organized by a permanent, universal animosity and malevolence; sullen suspicion and resentment are their chief motives, ill will and treachery their chief virtues — H.J.Muller > ill will may suggest a feeling of enmity, antipathy, or resentment directed against a person or thing, often with cause; it differs from malevolence in not implying a lasting character trait < Catherine could not believe it possible that any injury or any misfortune could provoke such ill will against a person not connected, or, at least, not supposed to be connected with it — Jane Austen > spite suggests petty ill will and mean envy and resentment < a man full of the secret spite of dullness, who interrupted from time to time, and always to check or disorder thought — W.B.Yeats > despite, now not common, may imply more pride and disdain but less pettiness than spite < not in despite but softly, as men smile about the dead — G.K.Chesterton > malignancy and malignity imply deep passion and relentless driving force < employed by the envy, jealousy and malignity of his enemies, to ruin him with the queen — Hilaire Belloc > < he is cruel with the cruelty of petrified feeling, to his poor heroine; he pursues her without pity or pause, as with malignity — Matthew Arnold > < blinded by malignancy against the class of manual worker — Cecil Sprigge > spleen indicates choleric ill will with wrathful release of latent spite < his just fame was long obscured by partisan spleen — V.L.Parrington > < venting their spleen against the United States in so venomous a manner — T.R.Fyvel > grudge suggests cherished ill will with deep resentment at a real or imagined slight, affront, humiliation, or other cause of chagrin < she had never been close to Uncle Claude and had held a grudge against him for ending her companionship with Ralph — Jean Stafford > < the secret grudges that the relations of men whom he had killed or dishonored bore against him — Robert Graves > II. obsolete intransitive verb obsolete |
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