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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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“Maliciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maliciousness. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.
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