malice

kill a man of malice prepense

I bear no malice towards anybody.

read malice in sb.'s face

detected malice behind the smile.

there was no malice in her; on the contrary, she was very kind.

a hint of malice underlay his display of concern.

I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.

Suddenly Guy, more by way of a nervous twitch than with malice aforethought, pulled the trigger.

When he that has given no provocation to malice, but by attempting to excel in some useful art, finds himself pursued by multitudes whom he never saw with implacability of personal resentment;