Definitions for malice

malice mal·ice

Spelling: [mal-is]
IPA: /ˈmæl ɪs/

Malice is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in malice (aceilm).

Definitions for malice

noun

  1. desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness:
  2. Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others.

Origin of malice

1250-1300; Middle English Old French Latin malitia. See mal-, -ice

Examples for malice

You seem to come like my own anger, my own malice, my own—whatever it is—I don't know what it is.

It was a review of Lady Macbeth, and it dripped with malice.

When I was pondering shooting up my school, I rarely thought of doing it out of malice against the other students.

Polish them until they gleam with malice, wicked glee, and non-registry gifts.

At least, release my gentle sister, and pour out all your malice on me.

You can do that without forgiving me, if you still bear me malice.

What came out instead was the opposite: mean-spirited, nasty, laced with malice and threat.

Now to the charges which malice and misrepresentation have brought against me.

But Fortune had not yet exhausted her malice against the hapless Athenians.

Why does Rivers' joke have the sting of deliberate shock without any of the other joke's malice?

Word Value for malice
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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