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Discover LudwigThe phrase "bear malice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to feeling negative or spiteful emotions towards someone. Example: He had been wronged, but he chose not to bear malice.
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He refused to bear malice or to punish those who traduced him.
Does he bear malice toward the British for the scars of Falls Road? "It's hard to, now," he said.
Finding himself marooned in a crowd of dastardly "kiddies," Franzen's crotchety rake marvels at how the 20-somethings "bear malice toward nobody".
Instead, he cited Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address to bear "malice toward none", then went into a routine about how an unusually tall, wonky man like Lincoln could never survive modern imaging and messaging consultants.
Only Tiamat stood her ground, seeking first to throw him off his guard by flattery about his quick rise to leadership, but Marduk angrily denounced her and the older generation: "The sons [had to] withdraw [for] the fathers were acting treacherously, and [now] you, who gave birth to them, bear malice to the offspring".
I don't bear malice". If that doesn't sound like what directors prize today, Neame would have to agree.
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I bear no malice toward your people.
"I bear no malice towards anyone".
"I bear no malice against him.
In a gesture typical of Greeneland, the generous, quixotic Korda ("there was never a man who bore less malice") hired his enemy, who became a loyal friend.
Said moggie is also a needy insomniac who keeps Haines, 44, up at night, but the former linchpin of Nineties indie act The Auteurs bears no malice.
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