Usually means: Intention to cause harm willingly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. malice: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. malice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. malice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. malice: Collins English Dictionary
  5. malice: Vocabulary.com
  6. Malice, malice: Wordnik
  7. malice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. malice: Wiktionary
  9. malice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. malice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. malice: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. malice: Dictionary.com
  13. malice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. malice: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Malice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. malice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. malice: Rhymezone
  19. malice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. malice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. malice: Free Dictionary
  22. malice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. malice: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. malice: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. malice: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. malice: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. malice: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. malice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. malice: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. malice: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Malice: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See malices as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
noun:  (law) An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.
verb:  To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.

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