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Noun: malice  ma-lis
  1. The desire to cause harm or suffering to others
    "The malice of his pranks went beyond simple mischief";
    - maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom
     
  2. The quality of threatening evil
    "The villain's malice was clear in his sinister threats";
    - malevolence, malevolency

Derived forms: malices

Type of: evil, evilness, ill, malevolence, malignity

Encyclopedia: Malice, Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship