Sample Sentences for
malice
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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
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    I detected no malice in her voice.  (source)
    malice = desire to see another suffer
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    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
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    And hobbits as miserable slaves would please him far more than hobbits happy and free. There is such a thing as malice and revenge.  (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
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    I nodded and smiled back, then I realized there was something malicious in her smile.  (source)
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    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
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    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.
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    He says he never mean to lay de weight uh his hand on me in malice.  (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
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    I thought about the probability that some percentage of said bacteria were malicious.  (source)
    malicious = harmful
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    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
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    On one particular raid, though, against a clan of Svirfnebli, the deep mining, unassuming gnomes that often had the misfortune of running up against the drow in their common habitat, Masoj went too far in his maliciousness.†  (source)
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    To do her justice, she really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense, and she was honestly anxious to preserve her little daughter from the contamination of further intimacy with such a child.  (source)
    malice = evil
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    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)
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