deliberate malice

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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 Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint