Detestation vs Malice - What's the difference?
detestation | malice | Related terms |
Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
Something detested.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
As nouns the difference between detestation and malice
is that detestation is hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence while malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.detestation
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(en noun)citation, passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”}}
malice
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(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
