Definition of malice

"malice" in the noun sense

1. malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom

feeling a need to see others suffer

2. malevolence, malevolency, malice

the quality of threatening evil

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Quotations for malice

Malice is mindful. [ Proverb ]

More malice than matter. [ Proverb ]

Hot men harbour no malice. [ Proverb ]

Meat is much, but malice is more. [ Proverb ]

Injury is to be measured by malice. [ Proverb ]

Passionate people lay up no malice. [ Proverb ]

To bear no malice or hatred in my heart. [ Church Catechism ]

Harmless all malice, if our God be nigh;
Fruitless all pains, if he his help deny.
Patient I pass these gloomy hours away,
And wait the morning of eternal day! [ Lady Jane Dudley ]

He, who would free from malice pass his days,
Must live obscure, and never merit praise. [ Gay ]

Malice hath a sharp sight and a strong memory. [ Proverb ]

Though malice darken truth, it cannot put it out. [ Proverb ]

Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

When the dog's dead, all his malice dies with him. [ Proverb ]

Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice. [ Proverb ]

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. [ Ouida ]

He that keeps malice harbours a viper in his breast. [ Proverb ]

Malice drinks up the greatest part of its own poison. [ Proverb ]

Accusing is proving, where Malice and Force sit judges. [ Proverb ]

I am satisfied there is more weakness among men than malice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Openness has the mischief though not the malice of treachery. [ Proverb ]

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. [ R. G. Ingersoll ]

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits. [ B. R. Haydon ]

We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood. [ Bruyere ]

Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment, dare bite the best. [ William Shakespeare ]

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. [ Balzac ]

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. [ William Shakespeare ]

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. [ Rivarol ]

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. [ Government of the Tongue ]

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. [ J. C. Hare ]

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish. [ Plutarch ]

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. [ Sheridan ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. [ Hazlitt ]

I am constitutionally susceptible of noises; a carpenter's hammer, in a warm summer noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness; but those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music. [ C. Lamb ]

malice in Scrabble®

The word malice is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters malice:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word malice

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In malice

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malice in Words With Friends™

The word malice is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters malice:

MALICE
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word malice

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In malice

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Words containing the sequence malice

Words that start with malice (2 words)

Words with malice in them (1 word)

Words that end with malice (1 word)

Word Growth involving malice

Shorter words in malice

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Longer words containing malice

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