malice

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun feeling a need to see others suffer
  2. noun the quality of threatening evil

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Synonyms

maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom

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