All 3 Uses of
malicious
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- "How do you do?" inquired that lady then—sharply, and yet as if to express that she bore him no malice.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- That, immediately, on a signal, the prisoner was removed to the interior of the prison again; but, that he, the Doctor, had then so strongly pleaded for permission to remain and assure himself that his son-in-law was, through no malice or mischance, delivered to the concourse whose murderous yells outside the gate had often drowned the proceedings, that he had obtained the permission, and had remained in that Hall of Blood until the danger was over.†
Chpt 3.4
- All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately revengeful and fitful, the innocent were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and black malice, it was so impossible to forget that many as blameless as her husband and as dear to others as he was to her, every day shared the fate from which he had been clutched, that her heart could not be as lightened of its load as she felt it ought to be.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
-
(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil