malice

A shadowy figure with a grinning mask holds a broken heart in one hand and a lit match in the other, dark-art, dramatic-lighting, moody.
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A shadowy figure with a grinning mask holds a broken heart in one hand and a lit match in the other, dark-art, dramatic-lighting, moody.

A shadowy figure with a grinning mask holding a broken heart in one hand and a lit match in the other represents the intention to cause harm and take pleasure in others' misfortune, which is the core meaning of 'malice'. The dark-art and dramatic-lighting styles enhance the sinister and harmful nature of the scene.

  1. noun — malices
    1. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
      • […] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
    2. An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.
  2. verb — malices; malicing; maliced
    1. To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.
      • Thou blinded God (quod I) forgive me this offence, / Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence.
      • I am so far from malicing their states, / That I begin to pity 'em.
      • Here's a list of side effects / Practice tested / Covering every maliced angle / For example: / You will sleep forever / You will never sleep again
      • Robert Truswell may have been a belligerent and malicing man, a jury heard this morning during the trial of George Kieran Daunt.
      • I haven't maliced anybody, definitely not. I never used to have friends like that. I had a few who I thought were friends. Even if you have friends, things happen and friendship break up, but you move on. But I still talk to everybody.