malice – 1 Badness; esp. wickedness. 2 The desire to injure another person; active ill will or hatred. 3 Malicious conduct; a malicious act or device. 4 Power to harm, harmful action or effect, malignancy. 5 Law. Wrongful intention, esp. as aggravating guilt in certain offences or depriving some act of a justification or excuse that might otherwise have been allowed. 6 Bear malice towards. Oxford Dictionary

malice – malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, malignance, evil intentions, ill will, ill feeling, animosity, animus, hostility, enmity, bad blood, hatred, hate, spite, spitefulness, vindictiveness, rancour, bitterness, grudge, venom, spleen, harm, destruction, defamation; inf. bitchiness, cattiness. Oxford Thesaurus