Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to malice
Participle: maliced
Gerund: malicing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | malice |
| you | malice |
| he;she;it | malices |
| we | malice |
| you | malice |
| they | malice |
Perfect
| I | have maliced |
| you | have maliced |
| he;she;it | has maliced |
| we | have maliced |
| you | have maliced |
| they | have maliced |
Past
| I | maliced |
| you | maliced |
| he;she;it | maliced |
| we | maliced |
| you | maliced |
| they | maliced |
Pluperfect
| I | had maliced |
| you | had maliced |
| he;she;it | had maliced |
| we | had maliced |
| you | had maliced |
| they | had maliced |
Future
| I | will malice |
| you | will malice |
| he;she;it | will malice |
| we | will malice |
| you | will malice |
| they | will malice |
Future Perfect
| I | will have maliced |
| you | will have maliced |
| he;she;it | will have maliced |
| we | will have maliced |
| you | will have maliced |
| they | will have maliced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | malice |
| you | malice |
| he;she;it | malice |
| we | malice |
| you | malice |
| they | malice |
Perfect
| I | have maliced |
| you | have maliced |
| he;she;it | have maliced |
| we | have maliced |
| you | have maliced |
| they | have maliced |
Imperfect
| I | maliced |
| you | maliced |
| he;she;it | maliced |
| we | maliced |
| you | maliced |
| they | maliced |
Pluperfect
| I | had maliced |
| you | had maliced |
| he;she;it | had maliced |
| we | had maliced |
| you | had maliced |
| they | had maliced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would malice |
| you | would malice |
| he;she;it | would malice |
| we | would malice |
| you | would malice |
| they | would malice |
Perfect
| I | would have maliced |
| you | would have maliced |
| he;she;it | would have maliced |
| we | would have maliced |
| you | would have maliced |
| they | would have maliced |
Imperative
| you | malice |
| we | Let's malice |
| you | malice |
Verbs conjugated like 'malice'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'malice'
aline,
mace,
malign,
manace,
marline,
palace,
police,
slice,
splice,
abide,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).
Sample Sentences
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Thou blinded God (quod I) forgive me this offence, / Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence. [1557, Henry Howard, “Complaint of a lover that defied Love and was by Love after the more tormented”, in Songes and Sonettes:]
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Who on the other ſide did ſeeme ſo farre / From malicing, or grudging his good houre, / That, all he could, he graced him with her, / Ne euer ſhewed ſigne of rancour or of iarre. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 477:]
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His paines, his pouertie, his ſharpe aſſayes, / Through which he paſt his miſerable dayes, / Offending none, and doing good to all, / Yet being maliſt both of great and ſmall. [1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Love”, in Fowre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 32:]
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I am so far from malicing their states, / That I begin to pity 'em. [1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, act 5, scene 2:]
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A feeble spirited king that governed, / Who ill could guide the sceptre he did use; / His enemies, that his worth maliced, / Who both the land and him did much abuse: / The peoples love; and his apparent right, May seem sufficient motives to incite. [1609, Samuel Daniel, The History of the Civil Wars, book 5, verse 48:]
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Here's a list of side effects / Practice tested / Covering every maliced angle / For example: / You will sleep forever / You will never sleep again [1995, Fugazi, “Fell, Destroyed”, in Red Medicine, performed by Guy Picciotto:]
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Robert Truswell may have been a belligerent and malicing man, a jury heard this morning during the trial of George Kieran Daunt. [2005 May 3, “'He was a mess,' woman says of accused”, in The Whitehorse Star:]
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I haven't maliced anybody, definitely not. I never used to have friends like that. I had a few who I thought were friends. Even if you have friends, things happen and friendship break up, but you move on. But I still talk to everybody. [2018 May 14, Kimberley Small, quoting Marion Hall, “Dancehall was contentious, says Marion Hall”, in The Jamaica Star:]