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malice in fact

noun

Definitions

  1. Provable intent to commit a crime or otherwise do harm.

    • But falsehood and want of probable cause are in themselves evidence of malice in fact.
    • A private individual very often made a statement out of malice, but a newspaper very often published these matters not for malice in fact, but because it answered their purpose to do so […]

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for malice in fact. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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