There was no malice in what he did.
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Malice
//ˈmælɪs//
Synonyms for "malice" (94 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (47)
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More general
4 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
11 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
91 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- حِقد noun (intention to harm)
- حِقْد noun (intention to harm)
Armenian
2 entries- նենգ noun (intention to harm)
- քեն noun (intention to harm)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qərəz noun (intention to harm)
Bulgarian
1 entries- злонамереност noun (intention to harm)
Catalan
1 entries- malícia noun (intention to harm)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 惡意 /恶意 noun (intention to harm)
Czech
1 entries- zlomyslnost noun (intention to harm)
Dutch
1 entries- kwaadaardigheid noun (intention to harm)
Esperanto
1 entries- malico noun (intention to harm)
Faroese
3 entries- illskapur noun (intention to harm)
- óndskapur noun (intention to harm)
- óreinskapur noun (intention to harm)
Finnish
2 entries- ilkeys noun (intention to harm)
- pahantahtoisuus noun (intention to harm)
French
3 entries- malice noun (intention to harm)
- malveillance noun (intention to harm)
- méchanceté noun (intention to harm)
Galician
1 entries- malicia noun (intention to harm)
German
4 entries- Boshaftigkeit noun (intention to harm)
- Bosheit noun (intention to harm)
- Bösartigkeit noun (intention to harm)
- Böse noun (intention to harm)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸 noun (intention to harm)
Greek
3 entries- εμπάθεια noun (intention to harm)
- κακία noun (intention to harm)
- κακεντρέχεια noun (intention to harm)
Hindi
4 entries- कपट noun (intention to harm)
- कीना noun (intention to harm)
- कुनह noun (intention to harm)
- कुभाव noun (intention to harm)
Hungarian
3 entries- malícia noun (intention to harm)
- rosszakarat noun (intention to harm)
- rosszindulat noun (intention to harm)
Icelandic
2 entries- illgirni noun (intention to harm)
- meinfýsni noun (intention to harm)
Isoko
1 entries- ịgrẹ noun (intention to harm)
Italian
3 entries- cattiveria noun (intention to harm)
- malignità noun (intention to harm)
- malizia noun (intention to harm)
Japanese
2 entries- 悪意 noun (intention to harm)
- 毒気 noun (intention to harm)
Latin
1 entries- malitia noun (intention to harm)
Macedonian
3 entries- злоба noun (intention to harm)
- злонамера noun (intention to harm)
- пакост noun (intention to harm)
Malayalam
1 entries- ദുഷ്ടത noun (intention to harm)
Māori
2 entries- kaikino noun (intention to harm)
- mauāhara noun (intention to harm)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- argskap noun (intention to harm)
- vondskap noun (intention to harm)
Old English
1 entries- yfelwillendnes noun (intention to harm)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Groll noun (intention to harm)
Polish
3 entries- pakość noun (intention to harm)
- złoba noun (intention to harm)
- złośliwość noun (intention to harm)
Portuguese
3 entries- maldade noun (intention to harm)
- malignidade noun (intention to harm)
- malícia noun (intention to harm)
Romanian
2 entries- maliție noun (intention to harm)
- malițiozitate noun (intention to harm)
Russian
4 entries- зло noun (intention to harm)
- зло́ба noun (intention to harm)
- злой у́мысел noun (intention to harm)
- злость noun (intention to harm)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- màlīcija noun (intention to harm)
- pȁkōst noun (intention to harm)
- zlonámērnōst noun (intention to harm)
- zlòba noun (intention to harm)
Spanish
1 entries- malicia noun (intention to harm)
Swedish
1 entries- illvilja noun (intention to harm)
Thai
2 entries- ความมุ่งร้าย noun (intention to harm)
- เจตนาร้าย noun (intention to harm)
Tocharian B
1 entries- mantālo noun (intention to harm)
Turkish
2 entries- art niyet noun (intention to harm)
- kötü niyet noun (intention to harm)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Ben spread a rumor about me out of malice.
Source: tatoeba (33797)
I bear him no malice.
Source: tatoeba (260327)
There was no malice intended in what she said.
Source: tatoeba (308959)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.