Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being malicious; extreme enmity or disposition to injure; malignity.
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- noun The condition of being
malicious ;malevolence ormalice
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- noun feeling a need to see others suffer
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Examples
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"I think everyone would agree it was reckless, but it did not rise to the level of maliciousness, which is the intent to cause harm," Reed said.
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"If you acted with maliciousness, that is to be determined by trial," Nolan told Call.
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When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish.
The Translation of a Savage, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and pay $90 million in interest, said it didn't act with "maliciousness" and shouldn't have to pay damages greater than $1.3 million of Lehman's costs for litigating the case.
Bank of America Says It Wasn't `Malicious' in Taking Lehman's $500 Million - Bloomberg 2011
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No ability to have civilized discussion when Republicans, RNC, and conservative talk show hosts incite hatred and maliciousness by perpetuating half truths and lies.
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There's a line between aggressive play and maliciousness.
Enough With the Pillow Fights Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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(Which I mostly view as lack of self-awareness rather than maliciousness.)
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And let's just say that president Obama denounced what Jimmy Carter said, but if you look at the hate and outright maliciousness, Carter wasn't very far off the mark, and everyone knows it.
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