Definition of "maliciousness" [maliciousness]

• The condition of being malicious; malevolence or malice (noun)

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• ""I think everyone would agree it was reckless, but it did not rise to the level of maliciousness, which is the intent to cause harm," Reed said."
• ""If you acted with maliciousness, that is to be determined by trial," Nolan told Call."
• "When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish."