malice
US: /ˈmæɫəs/, /ˈmæɫɪs/
UK: /mˈælɪs/
UK: /mˈælɪs/
English Vietnamese dictionary
malice /'mælis/
- danh từ
- tính hiểm độc, ác tâm
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
[U] a feeling of hatred for sb that causes a desire to harm them: He sent the letter out of malice. + She is entirely without malice. + He certainly bears you no malice (= does not want to harm you). + The ghosts are described as if they bear actual malice towards humans.
Idioms: with malice aforethought (law) with the deliberate intention of committing a crime or harming sb
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
pure, sheer
VERB + MALICE
bear (sb), feel, have
He bore me no malice. She felt no malice. She has no malice in her.
PREP.
out of ~
She sacked him out of sheer malice.
| with/without ~
‘You're lying,’ he said, without malice.
| ~ towards
I bear no malice towards anybody.
Concise English dictionary
'mælɪs
noun
+feeling a need to see others suffer
+the quality of threatening evil
