Wishing evil to others.

synonym: malignity.

Roget 649: hurtfulness etc. adj.; virulence.    evil doer etc. 913; bane etc. 663; plague spot etc. (insalubrity) 657; evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid [Lat.], thorn in the side.    malignity; malevolence etc. 907; tender mercies [Iron.].    ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage; misusage etc. 679; injury etc. (damage) 659; knockout drops [U.S.].    badness etc. adj.; peccancy^†, abomination; painfulness etc. 830; pestilence etc. (disease) 655; guilt etc. 947; depravity etc. 945.    ... show more

Roget 889: enmity, hostility; unfriendliness etc. adj.; discord etc. 713; bitterness, rancor.    alienation, estrangement; dislike etc. 867; hate etc. 898.    heartburning^†; animosity etc. 900; malevolence etc. 907.    ... show more

Roget 907: malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness^†; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity etc. 889; hate etc. 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense^†; maliciousness etc. adj.; spite, despite; resentment etc. 900.    uncharitableness etc. adj.; incompassionateness etc. 914.1^†; gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity^†, acerbity churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895.    hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness etc. adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity^†, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity^†, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.    ill turn, bad turn; affront etc. (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [Iron.]; unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]. ... show more

Roget 914a: pitilessness etc. adj.; inclemency; severity etc. 739; malevolence etc. 907.   

Roget 919: revenge, revengement^†; vengeance; avengement^†, avengeance^†, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation etc. 718; day of reckoning.    rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence etc. 907; ruthlessness etc. 914.1. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.    ... show more

The quality of threatening evil.

synonyms: malevolency, malice.