malice
Example Sentences
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Despite the vast trove of limited series available these days, over-the-top ‘80s-style melodramas like this, sagas laced with delectable malice, simply do not exist today. “
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to carelessness or incompetence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“If anything, the evidence shows that they believed in the truth of their reporting, and that they formed their opinions independently. Without evidence of actual malice Dershowitz’s defamation claim cannot go forward,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
As is the case throughout, the questioners—the chairman, played with snide malice by Michael McKean, is flanked by two “investigators”—are pious, bullying and laughably disingenuous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
He teased Johnson about it, but without malice.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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