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
She felt herself the victim of circumstances to which her imagination attributed the deliberate malice that children ascribe to the furniture they run against in playing.
From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo
With deliberate malice I loaded a prolix narrative with every triviality that a fairly retentive memory could rake out of the half-forgotten past.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
