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the only effort cruelty ever budgets, and it always overspends
means the deliberate desire to harm someone, the conscious intent behind a hurtful act.
from From Latin malitia, 'badness, ill will,' built on malus, 'bad' — the same dark root that seeds malignant, malevolent, and malady. It reached English through Old French malice in the medieval period, carrying that ancient sense of a wickedness chosen rather than stumbled into.
- legal weight
- converts manslaughter into murder in a single word
- latin root
- from malus, meaning bad or evil
- aforethought
- premeditated malice is law's chilliest phrase
- hanlon's razor
- never attribute to malice what stupidity explains
- sweet kind
- schadenfreude is just malice with manners
for instance
nancy kerrigan attack 1994 — rival figure skater tonya harding's associates attacked kerrigan's knee before the us championships to prevent her competition
zuckerberg divorcees testimony — meta shareholders alleged zuckerberg maliciously excluded co-founder saverin from early ipo decisions in 2012