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Feeling a need to see others suffer
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maliciousness
Word definitions for maliciousness in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from malicious + -ness .\n
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being malicious; malevolence or malice
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malicious \Ma*li"cious\, a. [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See Malice .] Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. --Shak. Proceeding ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice , spite , spitefulness , venom ]
Usage examples of maliciousness.
It was all muckraking and lies and maliciousness, actual or otherwise, provable or not.
It says that those who turn themselves over to the devil to work his evil ways are “filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
She was dry and sober to the point of maliciousness, but her sober-mindedness went hand in hand with an imagination unbridled in everything to do with superstition.