How to Use malice in a Sentence

malice

noun

• She claimed that her criticisms were without malice.
• The two have been charged with felony murder with malice.
  — Megan Forrester, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2025
• The hypocrisy and malice are stunning.
  — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
• Lilian did not think there was true malice in that laughter.
  — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
• This wasn’t done out of malice and not in order to bring readers astray.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2016
• But that’s not to say there isn’t medical malice at work, too.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2018
• There might have been an unconscious malice — a glee — to my pounce.
  — Lili Anolik, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
• Still, no one will have any doubt about the malice of the plan Lila devised.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Didn’t see any malice at the time, and was more taken aback than anything else.
  — NBC news, 30 Apr. 2021
• The giant shrinks, and all that grows is the world’s stockpile of malice.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
• The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
  — cleveland, 15 Nov. 2020
• This is not someone who is going to kill someone out of malice.
  — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2025
• There was no malice or intent to not send but was a simple oversight.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• This sort of talk is often the product of laziness or malice.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Mar. 2018
• Our Rob was a big-hearted man that lived his life without malice.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• The task is advanced by our malice toward one, and that one is Mary.
  — Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
• To hunt a predator feels like an act of malice, of dominance, of ego.
  — Helen Whybrow july 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
• To prevail in court, Depp has to prove malice on Heard's part.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 May 2022
• From her perspective, to be mean is to have acted with malice.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024
• The jury did not find Mimms guilty of malice murder.
  — Dan Raby, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
• His father was found not guilty of malice murder but guilty on the other eight counts.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
• Nancy’s malice ran the gamut from the petty to the pivotal.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• The players go at each other’s throats without malice, if that makes sense.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
• This is not malice or intention.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 May 2026
• Count 1, malice murder, guilty.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
• Most environments do not fail out of malice.
  — Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• His son was arrested on charges of malice and felony murder in the father’s death.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 29 Dec. 2021
• The good news is that this escalation is rarely driven by malice.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Prosecutors could not prove malice in the case.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026