malice
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On Thursday, the judge ruled there wasn't sufficient "clear and convincing" evidence that the women made the accusation with "actual malice", as is required when a public figure is suing for defamation in California.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
“But do keep at it with the fake news, actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Prosecutors charged Moore with malice murder because she had taken misoprostol.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Black said his faith helps him make sense of the violence he witnessed and endured — not simply as the product of individual malice, but as something sustained by collective moral failure.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
She accepted the yellow rose without the least bit of malice, amused, rather, by the extravagance of the act, and she lifted her shawl to see his face better, not to show hers.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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