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deliberate malice

ADVERB
malice aforethought
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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

It is, however, a melancholy fact, which we are ashamed to state, that Mr. Froude has written characteristically here also, either through crass ignorance or through deliberate malice.

From West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas by J. J. (John Jacob) Thomas

And just listen——” He began to read in a voice of deliberate malice, letting his voice italicize the more scandalous transitions of what was certainly a very foolish and ill-knit piece of assertion.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells




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