deliberate malice

While midcentury highways fractured nature incidentally, city planners often plowed them through neighborhoods of color with deliberate malice.

Right now, any crowded event could spread the virus without any deliberate malice.

But in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court reversed the state court’s ruling, saying that the statements in the ad had not been made with deliberate malice and that malice was necessary to prove libel against public officials.

The point here isn't that there were no leftists who were Communists and subversives, but rather that the threat of left-wing Communist subversion was exaggerated — either due to paranoia or deliberate malice — by opponents of liberalism so that all liberals would be discredited.

What bothers me most is that it shows that she thinks our daughter is capable of such deliberate malice.