All 6 Uses

malice
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Billy Budd
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If askance he eyed the good looks, cheery health and frank enjoyment of young life in Billy Budd, it was because these went along with a nature that, as Claggart magnetically felt, had in its simplicity never willed malice or experienced the reactionary bite of that serpent.†
Chpt 12

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
And they can really form no conception of an unreciprocated malice.†
Chpt 13 *
But immediately was recalled to self-control by another question, to which with the same emotional difficulty of utterance he said, "No, there was no malice between us.†
Chpt 21
I never bore malice against the Master-at—arms.†
Chpt 21
Now why should he have so lied, so maliciously lied, since you declare there was no malice between you?†
Chpt 21

maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
Now why should he have so lied, so maliciously lied, since you declare there was no malice between you?†
Chpt 21

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

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