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  • Obie smiled in delicious malice.   (source)
    malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
  • Thorolf yelled, pushing common soldiers aside, roughly but without malice, and shouldering past officers.   (source)
    malice = wanting to make them suffer
  • Her expression was so full of delighted malice, so intelligent, above all so intimate that I felt ashamed and looked away.   (source)
    malice = desire to see others suffer
  • She alone had known how to outsmart the malicious mountain Ka't'sina who imprisoned the rain clouds in the northwest room of his magical house.   (source)
    malicious = evil
  • They looked harmless enough, as if they didn't bear any malice,   (source)
    malice = desire to see others suffer
  • He says he never mean to lay de weight uh his hand on me in malice.   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbors whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know.   (source)
    malice = evil; or wanting to see others suffer
  • And if I guess rightly there's a spice of malice in his soul towards me too.   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • Three of four faces looked at him with malicious amusement:   (source)
  • "I think I can rely on you, citoyen soldiers," laughed Chauvelin, maliciously, "to give this old liar the best and soundest beating he has ever experienced."   (source)
    maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer
  • And Rogojin burst out laughing, this time with unconcealed malice, as though he were glad that he had been able to find an opportunity for giving vent to it.   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • [With a smile of malice.]   (source)
    malice = evil
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all...   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • It's trespassing and malicious mischief.†   (source)
  • He thrust it at her, his eyes glittering with malice.†   (source)
  • I think you've always had malice in your heart!"†   (source)
  • I detected no malice in her voice.†   (source)
  • It was clear Celeste's malice had a new target, and after that whole episode with my dress—which I realized I'd forgotten to mention to Maxon—I was glad to see her move on.†   (source)
  • In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice—that is, evidence of actual knowledge on the part of the publisher that a statement is false.†   (source)
  • He does it without Christina's malice.†   (source)
  • But she knew that Hasina wasn't malicious.†   (source)
  • He could feel the malice even without looking.†   (source)
  • One of the jurors did not know the meaning of the word "malice."†   (source)
  • Nothing malicious or mocking lay beneath his words.†   (source)
  • The commadant's lips thin and his eyes narrow and an expression of slow and intense malice rises in his face.†   (source)
  • His eyes glitter with malice.†   (source)
  • It bore her no malice, this animal, it was indifferent to her misery.†   (source)
  • Whoever has a job in hand," said Idigo, looking at Nwakibie's elder son Igwelo with a malicious twinkle in his eye.†   (source)
  • Malicious code?†   (source)
  • It still surprises me to hear such malice in his voice.†   (source)
  • That is just malicious gossip.†   (source)
  • With a smile at her malicious insinuation, John went over to taste the ox-tail soup that had been left untouched on the tray.†   (source)
  • I have said many cruel and malicious things about the noble lords and ladies of the court.†   (source)
  • But here was a woman who hated me and who, out of sheer malice, had nearly killed me.†   (source)
  • Ender remembered burrowing through the eye when it had been alive and malicious and intelligent.†   (source)
  • I pull him harder, more out of malice than a desire to help him stretch.†   (source)
  • Platt — slouched back in his chair —said maliciously: "The highlight of Andy's trip was when we stopped for lunch that time at the snack bar."†   (source)
  • She hasn't said this with any particular malice--quite the contrary, her words are very matter-of-fact.†   (source)
  • The altitude here manifested itself as a malicious force, making me Too feel as though I were afflicted with a raging red-wine hangover, miserable to eat or even read, for the next two days I mostly lay in my tent with my head in my hands, trying to exert myself as little as possible.†   (source)
  • The darkness seems to come alive on all sides of us, full of darting shadows and malicious, looming shapes, ready to turn into a guard any second, and I picture the silence suddenly punctuated by screams, sighs, horns, bullets.†   (source)
  • My father spoke to Noah with the malice I thought he reserved only for my mother.†   (source)
  • A malicious smile takes shape and my body feels as though it has grown bigger, stronger.†   (source)
  • I'd never noticed what an unpleasant, nasal voice she had, and I was surprised by the malice in it.†   (source)
  • There was not a shred of malice in the guy.†   (source)
  • With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."†   (source)
  • Malice Aforethought†   (source)
  • Rain can do other things as well, but these are the reasons, it seems to me, that Hardy has chosen a nice, malicious rainstorm for his story.†   (source)
  • The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile.†   (source)
  • "Also," I said, "I'm fairly certain we're being followed by malicious spirits."†   (source)
  • Even in the dim light, Bella could see the malice gleaming in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Such malice made Meggie feel quite ill.†   (source)
  • Not if they're growing out of your… Dorothea paused and smiled at him, not without malice.†   (source)
  • He was a gentleman doing his job and I bore him no malice.†   (source)
  • But the malice of the Germans was not to be taken lightly.†   (source)
  • There was a malicious glitter in his eye.†   (source)
  • It was enough for Fermina Daza to see her cousin's expression of radiant malice for the pensive scent of white gardenias to grow again in her heart's memory, and then she tore the red sealing wax with her teeth and drenched the eleven forbidden telegrams in a shower of tears until dawn.†   (source)
  • What I have done was done without malice or hope of another's understanding.†   (source)
  • His previous little eye-flick of malice toward Phaedrus has turned to a little eyeflick of fear.†   (source)
  • As with so many of his misdeeds, this one was not malicious or premeditated.†   (source)
  • De Moya regretted these insults to the virgin dignity of our Benefactor and expressed the openness of our government to any and all investigations from member nations who wish to ascertain the falsity of these malicious charges.†   (source)
  • My work shifts were split so haphazardly that it was easy to believe that my superiors had chosen them maliciously.†   (source)
  • There is a root somewhere in his  brain, a twisted root that sprouts madness and malice.†   (source)
  • But that doesn't mean that I'm going to set out to present a malicious portrait of anyone.†   (source)
  • I feel no malice toward this girl.†   (source)
  • In them he discovered many evil instruments, including four metal flasks of Seithr oil, which he promptly destroyed so that no one else could use the flesh-eating acid to further their malicious plans.†   (source)
  • If the cat had been poisoned, might not this act have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders?†   (source)
  • "If there's one thing I can't stand, it's malicious old ladies."†   (source)
  • But I believed these stories were planted by the government to divide the Congress movement, and I regarded it as malicious mischief.†   (source)
  • He had a sharp, dangerous beak, and the one eye he chose to open stared down maliciously.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, just think,' Roger said, grinning maliciously, 'we'll be in the Apple tomorrow night.†   (source)
  • "Long ago," she says, "when man knew not greed, malice, tribe, nor clan, jinn walked the earth."†   (source)
  • It was hard to find malice in anything she'd done.†   (source)
  • Swaney's critics—local progressives and members of the resettlement community for the most part—tended to view him more as a bumbling good ol' boy than as overtly malicious.†   (source)
  • But, worse, Captain Charlock—a brave and resourceful rabbit—while leading the pursuit of the fugitives, had been run down on the iron road by a train: a further proof, if any were needed, of the wicked malice of men.†   (source)
  • Gideon Himes was not actively a bad man; he was as without personal malice as malaria.†   (source)
  • There was less bulimia and more fights than I had known as an undergrad, but the same feminine ethos was present—empathetic camaraderie and bawdy humor on good days, and histrionic dramas coupled with meddling, malicious gossip on bad days.†   (source)
  • If you've never been on the wrong end of gossip, spread by malicious girls, you'd be surprised how fast they can disseminate reputation-crushing information.†   (source)
  • Enough of us have been on the receiving end of malicious gossip to understand how hurtful it is, and yet we do it anyway, without even giving it a second thought….†   (source)
  • Her face was changing, resuming its usual expression of gleeful malice.†   (source)
  • There's more curiosity than malice in the question.†   (source)
  • Right now my gut feeling was telling me that Neferet's anger was all wrong, even if it was in response to Aphrodite's malicious gossip about me.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba, ever fearful of public ridicule, opted for a solution that would not provide material for malicious tongues, because he knew that his wife's strange behavior was the target of local gossips.†   (source)
  • His eyes gleamed maliciously.†   (source)
  • I did not expect you to have a malicious heart.†   (source)
  • Cedric is not malicious.†   (source)
  • That was just malicious talk, I am sure.†   (source)
  • The cause of her mother's malice was that she had suffered so.†   (source)
  • Then, on the other side of the room, I hear Alicia murmur some malicious little comment and give a snort of laughter.†   (source)
  • I won't spread a malicious rumor just because you say you'll shoot my pinkie toes off if I don't.†   (source)
  • Harry Rex was a confidant of both Jake and Willie, and though he loved to spread gossip maliciously, he would never rat out inside information like this.†   (source)
  • That Golden Rule Thing CRAIG NEWMARK I USED TO SHARE THE CYNICISM COMMON to many nerds--that people were frequently malicious and opportunistic.†   (source)
  • "Of course not," said Lieutenant Issaaia, malice concealed in the ambiguity of her words.†   (source)
  • Heretofore all the campus gossip had seemed merely malicious and disrespectful; now I could see the advantage for Dr. Bledsoe.†   (source)
  • The prosecution introduced the letter and Mr. Findlay's testimony in an effort to portray Mrs. Smith as so maliciously selfish that she was prepared to trade the lives of her children for a chance to reclaim him.†   (source)
  • Each was muscular and graceful, each capable of performing difficult tasks requiring physical coordination; but where David's strength and mobility came from an easy sense of accomplishment, Jason's was filled with an inner malice, no pleasure in the accomplishment, only a hostile purpose.†   (source)
  • Don't distress yourself …. about any malicious attempts to injure me in the estimation of my countrymen.†   (source)
  • Your malice has brought Plague on my man and my mother and my hoys!†   (source)
  • I would have never guessed that Mother would, of all places, move near her own mother—a person that she treated with absolute malice.†   (source)
  • This comment and the fact that it was uttered without a trace of malice had given Annie such a shock that for several weeks she thought of little else than her relationship with Grace or, as she now saw it, her lack of one.†   (source)
  • Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice.†   (source)
  • February is just plain malicious.†   (source)
  • The high dead eyelids wrinkled more, the corners of his mouth snaked up as he chuckled, sly, hardly hiding his malice.†   (source)
  • She poured the dirty water off the rice to destroy and silence them, then watched with a malicious joy as they disappeared down the drain.†   (source)
  • One did not dare to announce a birth until the child had been officially examined and approved; and the longer the formal announcement was delayed, the more time the malicious had to invent reasons for the delay.†   (source)
  • "She wants the commander to have a good shot at you," Eugenides pointed out with a touch of malice.†   (source)
  • Alex grinned maliciously and stepped forward to extend his hand to Rolf, who looked suddenly uneasy.†   (source)
  • Jack Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and sentenced to death.†   (source)
  • If you didn't know her, you'd think her zest comes from malice.†   (source)
  • At the end of a dark street, the bulbs of an electric sign kept going on and off, as if winking at her maliciously.†   (source)
  • Thirteen, she thought, sending a malicious look over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • That was malicious gossip.†   (source)
  • There was malice in his approach.†   (source)
  • And because of your ignorance, greed, and malicious, arrogant disregard of the law, the captain and crew of your ship are dead.†   (source)
  • I imagined that something deeply horrible had happened to her when she was young, some nameless pain, something brutal, that a malicious man had taught her fear and sadness and she had had to leave her life and family because of it.†   (source)
  • But let's say, for argument's sake, that maliciousness and lust for power make some people to want control over State issues.†   (source)
  • Yet the dark elves were malicious, passionless killers beyond the tolerance of even their normally unjudging kin.†   (source)
  • She kicked the desk with enough force to have Galahad eyeing her maliciously.†   (source)
  • They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.†   (source)
  • There was no malice in its grip.†   (source)
  • Franny saw that he was irritated, and to what extent, but, for the moment, with equal parts of self-disapproval and malice, she felt like speaking her mind.†   (source)
  • "Kill it," Paul Berlin said, but without malice.†   (source)
  • He walked out of a party one night because somebody used the word "creampuff," it seemed maliciously, in his hearing.†   (source)
  • I have known and owned mean, ugly-natured cars which would have done this thing out of pure evil and malice, but not Rocinante.†   (source)
  • They are highly intelligent, they're cooperative, and they seem totally lacking in all areas of maliciousness.†   (source)
  • I remembered Iyanda with his overstarched uniform, his broad face, and his smiling, small, malicious eyes.†   (source)
  • At first his colleagues treated him with indulgence; perhaps his decline scared them in the same way as we are scared by cripples, beggars and invalids because we fear we could ourselves become them; but in the end his neglect, his brutal, unreasoning malice, isolated him.†   (source)
  • No one bears you any malice.†   (source)
  • …everyone except Tom, "That's right, Tom get ye some sleep; and Tom pulled his head back through the ceiling and looked down at him with those empty blue eyes and said, "That's all right, Mr. Ralph, and suddenly Ralph realized that he had no intention of sleeping and would be there alone, not sleeping a wink, just ready in case he was needed; and that Tom had seen his malice, his desire to belittle him, and had belittled him instead, before his mother and his wife and his dying father.†   (source)
  • JAMIE Maliciously.†   (source)
  • Yet the man who would later be a bold President—and father of an independent Senator and President—not only remained as counsel, but acquitted his clients of the murder charge, demonstrating to a packed courtroom that no evidence was at hand to show that the firing was malicious and without provocation: Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.†   (source)
  • He looks quietly and maliciously absurd, out walking with old Mr. Marblehall or old Mrs. Marblehall, placing his small booted foot on a little green worm, while they stop and wait on him.†   (source)
  • MORE (Grins maliciously at ROPER) That's it of coursesaints!†   (source)
  • Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses… Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.†   (source)
  • She began to suspect double meanings where none were intended, to find maliciousness in the glance of a person who felt nothing but affection for her.†   (source)
  • She was loaded to the eyelids with cold malice.   (source)
    malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
  • Nor, when he had seen that it was no use, that he did not possess in himself the power to move fundamentally or to hold Judy Jones, did he bear any malice toward her.   (source)
    malice = desire to see someone suffer
  • Just recall to your mind what these malicious creatures wrote in the papers about papa, and how horribly they slandered him.   (source)
    malicious = wanting to see others suffer
  • I said this without any malice, and really hadn't intended anything by it.†   (source)
  • "Have it your own way, Potter," said Malfoy, grinning maliciously.†   (source)
  • The gesture was not missed by Voldemort, whose eyes widened maliciously.†   (source)
  • "I think you were better off with the old one," said Snape, the malice in his voice unmistakable.†   (source)
  • For jokes you need a certain edge, a little malice.†   (source)
  • Jace… She saw the bright malice in his eyes and trailed off.†   (source)
  • "Looked bad when he left," Wilem said with a quiet malice.†   (source)
  • But I don't do it unless I absolutely need to, and I've never done it with malice."†   (source)
  • I look at him without malice, without hatred, and without fear.†   (source)
  • His pale, pointed face was alight with malice.†   (source)
  • I feel none of the rage and malice that the other beasts radiated, no desire for blood and death.†   (source)
  • Only he's unwilling to sell it, as, as," he said, shushing me maliciously, "as I would be too.†   (source)
  • "Do you feel that?" she asked Chaol, who slowly, maliciously grinned.†   (source)
  • She hadn't intended to mislead, she hadn't acted out of malice.†   (source)
  • "Come and get it!" she giggled maliciously.†   (source)
  • It indicted Williams for first-degree murder—premeditated and with malice aforethought.†   (source)
  • Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously.†   (source)
  • Malfoy's eyes were narrowed maliciously.†   (source)
  • Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice.†   (source)
  • Its malice echoes into all worlds," the queen went on.†   (source)
  • The impulse, the flash of malice, the infantile destructiveness he could understand.†   (source)
  • He looked at her with glittering malice.†   (source)
  • But please know that if I have to leave you, I leave you with love, rather than malice.†   (source)
  • The hollow, mad eyes of the monster were full of malice.†   (source)
  • Lindsey bolted upright, staring at Katrina with a gathering malice.†   (source)
  • "A more useful skill than any of yours, sweet brother," purred Cersei, in a voice sweet with malice.†   (source)
  • "Wish I were," said Anna, her pretty blue eyes glittering with malice.†   (source)
  • Leo's eyes were hazel, bright with wine and malice.†   (source)
  • Her image changed back to the black-feathered hag, her horrible melted face grinning maliciously.†   (source)
  • His eyes glittered with amusement and malice.†   (source)
  • Not really maliciously, and maybe he even notes a hint of real flirtation in there somewhere.†   (source)
  • The Russian's eyes glittered with malice.†   (source)
  • The polecat hissed, its beady red eyes full of malice.†   (source)
  • Marcus's yellow eyes are troubled, his lack of malice so profound that I barely recognize him.†   (source)
  • "Couldn't wake him up," said Avens, with a touch of malice.†   (source)
  • He kept staring at them, though without malice.†   (source)
  • I was one of the cotton-mill men to them; they had no personal malice.†   (source)
  • There's too much loose malice blowing around.†   (source)
  • And they maliciously attack its supporters.†   (source)
  • 'Not wholly, perhaps,' said Faramir; 'but malice eats it like a canker, and the evil is growing.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, no, you're not,' gloated Major Sanderson maliciously.†   (source)
  • "You poor stupid blind crippled fool," he'd snarled, in a voice thick with malice.†   (source)
  • We have no real indication that the virus will be used maliciously.†   (source)
  • I shall do nothing in malice, for what I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.†   (source)
  • Then he understood and approached the table, smiling maliciously.†   (source)
  • He personally witnessed the northern crowd's malice toward the South at Lincoln's speech last night.†   (source)
  • Bearing neither malice or ill will towards anyone, not even the most deluded ….†   (source)
  • And then Archie, his eyes sparkling with triumph and malice, had explained the rules.†   (source)
  • Elva answered in a soft tone, with no trace of malice.†   (source)
  • He had no malice or rage in his face, simply a plain expression of purpose.†   (source)
  • I could not understand why nearly everything that spewed from her mouth was filled with malice.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because I was so quiet and composed she added maliciously, 'She marry with someone else.†   (source)
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