All 4 Uses of
malicious
in
Macbeth
- Fears and scruples shake us: In the great hand of God I stand; and thence, Against the undivulg'd pretense I fight Of treasonous malice.†
Scene 2.1
- We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it; She'll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth.†
Scene 3.2
- Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.†
Scene 3.2
- Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
Scene 4.3 *malicious = wanting to see others suffer
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil