Examples of malice

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In the extreme case this is done without provocation and through pure malice.
With a bit of malice that makes it mutual.
Relativism counsels tolerance, it is believed, whereas nonrelativism engenders accusations of irrationality or willful malice and a dogmatic attachment to one's own cultural prejudices.
While initial hostility was fierce, this was essentially due to a fear of the unknown rather than blind hatred and malice.
The predatory spirits, on the other hand, are described as if they bore actual malice toward humans.
While the accuser asserts that deliberate malice is involved, the accused protests his innocence, politely but firmly disclaiming any malevolent intentions.
In those days, he wrote scorching little plays animated by malice and spite in which comedy and cruelty would regularly copulate.
The common usage of the word suggests an act of wanton, even random damage free from malice let alone politics.
We aim to protect against accidental programming and configuration error, not against malice.
Roughly we can distinguish malice, recklessness, negligence, and incompetence.
Exclusion from communion on grounds of malice was apparently much more common than was exclusion for sin.
An obvious example is that common words such as "malice" and "fault" are often used in legal discourse in a technical sense.
The original text lists the emotions as contempt, jealousy, rage, malice, love.
Victim of personal or political malice he may well have been, but his theology undoubtedly contributed to his downfall.
She did not bear any malice for the blows.
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