as in malice
the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm
the maliciousness of some Internet trolls led the editor to start moderating comments on the site
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Noun
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All of that hope is now hitting a wall of regulatory unpredictability and malice as policy.—
Richard Hughes IV,
STAT,
18 Feb. 2026 -
Colt Gray, now 16, has been indicted on 55 felony counts, including four counts of malice murder, according to court documents.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Toxins in many animal venoms, for example, are peptides.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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Treasury secretary blasts 'venom' from left after deadly Mar-a-Lago incident.—
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FOXNews.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Maliciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maliciousness. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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