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# malice

«malice» in Mova's school dictionary: **the wish to hurt someone or make bad things happen to them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (malice)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Malice is the wish to hurt someone or make bad things happen to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#m1)

2) (law) Malice is the intention to do harm when breaking the law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#m2)

3) Malice can also mean playful teasing that is not really meant to be unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories malice marks a villain; in ethics lessons, it separates a mistake from a cruel act done on purpose. Phrases: with malice, out of malice, without malice.

### examples

- The witch looked at the princess with malice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#x1)
- He broke the toy by accident, not out of malice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#x2)
- There was no malice in her joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#x3)
- The bully acted with malice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#x4)
- «Malice aforethought» is an old legal phrase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#x5)
- Gossip can be full of malice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: malicious. In ethics, what someone meant (malice or an accident) matters a lot when judging what they did.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «malice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.