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malice
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  • What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.  (source)
    malice = evil
  • I detected no malice in her voice.  (source)
    malice = desire to see another suffer
  • I notice this with malice. I shouldn't put my heart to such tests, now that I've been informed of its imperfections; yet I take a perverse delight in doing this, as if I am a bully and it is a small whining child whose weaknesses I despise.  (source)
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  • "All things happen for a purpose," she said, any sign of malice now gone from her voice.  (source)
    malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
  • I thought about the probability that some percentage of said bacteria were malicious.  (source)
    malicious = harmful
  • Malfoy elbowed past Hermione to block Harry's way up the stone steps to the castle, his face gleeful and his pale eyes glinting maliciously.  (source)
    maliciously = in a threatening way
  • I have always found this criticism to be vexing and based on both ignorance of ANC history and maliciousness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. [Jeanine] ... is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or...  (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • I nodded and smiled back, then I realized there was something malicious in her smile.  (source)
  • I can just see that chick someday looking down at some poor cat on an operating table and before she starts to slice him, she says . . . (Pulling his sleeves back maliciously) "By the way, what are your views on civil rights down there? "  (source)
    maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
  • But let's say, for argument's sake, that maliciousness and lust for power make some people to want control over State issues.†  (source)
  • A circlet of gold wreathed his head, and even in death his eyes were alive with malice.  (source)
    malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
  • She alone had known how to outsmart the malicious mountain Ka't'sina who imprisoned the rain clouds in the northwest room of his magical house.  (source)
    malicious = evil
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