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

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. malice: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. malice: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. malice: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. malice: Legal dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. malice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  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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