deliberate malice
Example Sentences
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What bothers me most is that it shows that she thinks our daughter is capable of such deliberate malice.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2019
Shaw said the defendants, who were relatives or friends of Evans, had posted the comments with "deliberate malice".
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2012
Further bolstering free speech, the Court upset an Alabama public official's $500,000 libel judgment against the New York Times, ruling that a public official cannot recover from his critics unless he proves deliberate malice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dean surveyed her177 out of cold blue eyes, that seemed to Grace to contain a spark of deliberate malice.
From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
It was no intentional or deliberate malice that induced me to act towards you as I did, but inexcusable thoughtlessness alone.
From Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 by Köchel, Ludwig Ritter von
