Malice and Revenge

Malice

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

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Revenge and malice are semantically related in spitefulness topic. In some cases you can use "Revenge" instead a noun "Malice".

Nearby Word: malicious

Revenge noun - The act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury.

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Malice and revenge are semantically related in vengefulness topic. Sometimes you can use "Malice" instead a noun "Revenge".

full	full malice	full revenge
pure	pure malice	pure revenge
perfect	perfect malice	perfect revenge
original	original malice	original revenge
Other adjectives: true, plain, little, vicious, horrible, cruel, personal, deadly, less, sadistic.

He had nursed his resentments and hatreds all his life, and had taken his pleasure from acts of malice and revenge.

Source: Alas, Poor Villain
Considering most dangerous ghosts in fiction simply want to take revenge for what killed them, the fact that the man actually killed himself to take revenge gives an idea of the sort of malice and cruelty the Nightmare shows.

Source: Ghostly Goals
Her and Faith must have known each other at some point, as Go Ask Malice explains why Kakistos is so obsessed with revenge: she sliced his balls off.

Source: Groin Attack / Live-Action TV

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