malice aforethought

But a small, important minority of these social-media clues portend real pain, struggle, even malice and disaster.

O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?

His avarice was disgusting beyond words, and with avarice went a tendency to underhand dealing, harshness, and malice.

He could see the unconcealed delight, and the malice that had always been, but which before he had been able to ignore.

The term malice means something more than "the intentional doing of a wrongful act to the injury of another without legal excuse."

But this way of dealing with the message was far too mild and moderate to satisfy the implacable malice of Howe.