All 5 Uses of
malicious
in
Bleak House
- She is sly and full of malice.†
Chpt 4-6
- If that dark-visaged eldest boy could look more malicious than he had already looked, this was the time when he did it.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- One face, and not an agreeable one, though it was handsome, seemed maliciously watchful of this pretty girl, and indeed of every one and everything there.†
Chpt 16-18
- I watched this young woman yesterday without her knowledge when she was looking at the funeral, in company with my wife, who planned to take her there; and I had so much to convict her, and I saw such an expression in her face, and my mind so rose against her malice towards her ladyship, and the time was altogether such a time for bringing down what you may call retribution upon her, that if I had been a younger hand with less experience, I should have taken her, certain.†
Chpt 52-54
- "Don't be so malicious," says Mr. Bucket.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil