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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

My fault was occasioned from a misinformed Folly, not from a deliberate malice.

From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Then, most of all, a man does an injustice, when he does an injury from choice, on purpose, or from deliberate malice, as stated in Ethic. v, 8.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas




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