Malice vs Delight - What's the difference?
malice | delight |
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
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Joy; pleasure.
* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
* Shakespeare
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* Milton:
* (Greensleeves):
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
* Tennyson
(label) To have or take great pleasure
As nouns the difference between malice and delight
is that malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune while delight is joy; pleasure.As a verb delight is
to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
Synonyms
* ill will * wickedness * evilnessDerived terms
* maliciousExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----delight
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fool hath no delight in understanding.
- Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
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- Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .
- Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,
Derived terms
* undelight * delightfulVerb
(en verb)- Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.