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Maliciousness definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MALI'CIOUSNESS, n. The quality of being malicious; extreme enmity or disposition to injure; malignity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom]

Merriam Webster's

noun see malicious

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Malicious Ma*li"cious, a. [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See Malice.] 1. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. --Shak. 2. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief. 3. (Law)With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act. Malicious abandonment, the desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. --Burrill. Malicious mischief (Law), malicious injury to the property of another; -- an offense at common law. --Wharton. Malicious prosecution or arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. --Bouvier. Syn: Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious; malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous; malign. -- Ma*li"cious*ly, adv. -- Ma*li"cious*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Malevolence, malice, malignity, ill-will, enmity.