How to Use malice in a Sentence

malice

noun

• She claimed that her criticisms were without malice.
• Harris has also been a greater target of online malice, much of it with a racist undertone.
  — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• Both men have been indicted by a grand jury on malice and felony murder charges in Arbery's death.
  — CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
• The McMichaels have been charged with felony malice murder and aggravated assault charges.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 13 Nov. 2020
• The jury agreed, finding that Cardona had acted with malice toward Garza.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• Cuisine is merely the vessel of vitriol, the muse of literary malice.
  — Theodore Gioia, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• That there wasn’t any apparently immediate malice did not change the basic facts: A noose was found in a garage.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2020
• Flood was charged with two counts of felony murder, one count of malice murder, one count aggravated battery, and one count of first-degree cruelty to children.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2020
• There’s an appeal to facing off against enemies who are distortions of real life, exaggerated and explicit in their malice.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• When the goal is not imparting insight but amplifying malice, any rhetorical escalation is allowed.
  — Theodore Gioia, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• Statements made about the three women were true or were opinion and hyperbole and were not made with malice or recklessness, according to responses filed by several defendants.
  — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2020
• There does not exist a descriptor that adequately captures the levels of cruelty and malice required to pursue such policies while South Dakotans die.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2020
• The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2020
• The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• Still, no one will have any doubt about the malice of the plan Lila devised.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• To prevail in court, Depp has to prove malice on Heard's part.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 May 2022
• His father Greg was cleared of only the malice murder charge, and found guilty of the rest.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• This wasn’t done out of malice and not in order to bring readers astray.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2016
• The malice that was brought here from Dallas to El Paso.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
• His father, Greg McMichael, was cleared of only the malice murder charge, and found guilty of the rest.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• Didn’t see any malice at the time, and was more taken aback than anything else.
  — NBC news, 30 Apr. 2021
• This is a throwback to the years hope died before May 1, and this is said without malice or joy.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 24 Apr. 2018
• This sort of talk is often the product of laziness or malice.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Mar. 2018
• Gregory McMichael was cleared of the malice murder charge, but found guilty of all the others.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• And the reason is because of the malice, negligence, or greed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
• But that’s not to say there isn’t medical malice at work, too.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2018
• The most curious sensation was the lack of malice from either the bear or me.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2016
• In front of this vivid appearance of malice, the Emperor stopped, woke up—and felt it.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• Alexis Grossman, 19, told the judge that her mom never had malice in her heart.
  — Cheri Carlson, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• In the Court’s view, Walter failed to plead facts that established actual malice.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024