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Added 8 October 2026

malice

/ˈmælɪs/ noun

In Latin: malitia Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about malice at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Feeling a need to see others suffer.
The quality of threatening evil.

Origin

From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).

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