Horror and Malice

Horror

Horror noun - The quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay.

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Malice and horror are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Malice" instead a noun "Horror".

Nearby Words: horrible, horrid, horrify

Malice noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

Usage example: there was no reason other than pure malice to spread such disgusting lies all over campus

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Horror and malice are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Horror" instead a noun "Malice".

Nearby Word: malicious

human	human horror	human malice
full	full horror	full malice
pure	pure horror	pure malice
particular	particular horror	particular malice
Other adjectives: short, alien, utter, true, genuine, sheer, actual, real, evil, little, absolute, inherent, general, less, outright, extra, greater, maximum.

It may not be done out of malice, but a defense mechanism to avoid the pure horror of considering the alternative.

Source: I Reject Your Reality
Perhaps most importantly, they only lashed out at the human party in horror and vengeance for the humans mutilating them first, rather than out of sheer carelessness or malice.

Source: Literature / At the Mountains of Madness
Even this extreme measure was not enough, and he turned to becoming the titular "gamesmaster" for the Upstarts not out of any sense of malice but just because their Deadly Game provided him a diversion from the horror of being constantly connected to over six billion minds.

Source: Power Incontinence

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