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
"There was a lovely cat at the hotel," she added with deliberate malice.
From Gloria and Treeless Street by Donnell, Annie Hamilton
She did not accuse Marchmont of deliberate malice, but by chance or the freak of some mischievous demon everything he said led Quisanté on to display his weaknesses.
From Quisanté by Hope, Anthony
