Malice

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
mal·ice [mal-is]
–noun
1. desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
2. Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others.
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

American Heritage Dictionary
mal·ice
n.
1. A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
2. Law The intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another.

Online Etymology Dictionary
malice
1297, "desire to hurt another," from O.Fr. malice "ill will, spite," from L. malitia "badness, ill will, spite," from malus "bad" (see mal-). In legal use, "wrongful intent generally" (1547). Malicious (c.1225) is O.Fr. malicius "showing ill will," from L. maliciosus "full of malice," from malitia.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

WordNet
malice
noun
1. feeling a need to see others suffer
2. the quality of threatening evil [syn: malevolence]
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
malice [ˈmӕlis]
noun
the wish to harm other people etc
Example: There was no malice intended in what she said.