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
"What is so rare as a day in June?" said Willits, with deliberate malice.
From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
The deliberate malice you have now been showing is a thousand times more atrocious.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
