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Malicious mischief is an offence against the common law of Scotland.It does not require actual damage to property for the offence to be committed; financial damage consequential to the act is sufficient, unlike vandalism which requires actual damage to property to form the offence, the latter being defined by section 52 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995.
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
Mischief is an offense against property that does not involve conversion. Mischief may also refer to: Mischief, a British comedy film; Mischief, a teen comedy film; Mischief, the victorious American defender of the fourth America's Cup race; Mr. Mischief, a character in the Mr. Men series
The mischief rule [1] is one of three rules of statutory interpretation traditionally applied by English courts, [2] the other two being the "plain meaning rule" (also known as the "literal rule") and the "golden rule". It is used to determine the exact scope of the "mischief" that the statute in question has set out to remedy, and to guide the ...
Enki, Sumerian god of intelligence, crafts, mischief, water, and creation; Nabu, Babylonian god of wisdom and writing; Ninimma, a minor Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the scribe and scholar of Enlil; Nisaba, Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest [21]
Apep the ultimate evil of Egyptian mythology in snake form; Isfet chaos, disorder, and injustice - opposed to Maat; Nu (mythology) primordial waters Set (deity) was not originally evil, but developed into a hated figure thanks to the invading Hyksos who identified him with their chief god, fights Apep.
Those who break the covenant of Allah after ratifying it, and sever that which Allah ordered to be joined, and (who) make mischief in the earth: Those are they who are the losers. – Quran 2:27 The word "losers" indicates being bereft of something, and can also mean "being lost", in the sense of losing one's way or one's self.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...