All 4 Uses of
malicious
in
The Mill on the Floss
- "It's not to be expected, I suppose," observed Mrs. Glegg, by way of winding up the subject, "as I shall go to the mill again before Bessy comes to see me, or as I shall go and fall down o' my knees to Mr. Tulliver, and ask his pardon for showing him favors; but I shall bear no malice, and when Mr. Tulliver speaks civil to me, I'll speak civil to him.†
Chpt 1.13
- "Then I may call and tell Bessy you'll bear no malice, and everything be as it was before?"†
Chpt 1.13 *
- Wakem was not without this parenthetic vindictiveness toward the uncomplimentary miller; and now Mrs. Tulliver had put the notion into his head, it presented itself to him as a pleasure to do the very thing that would cause Mr. Tulliver the most deadly mortification,— and a pleasure of a complex kind, not made up of crude malice, but mingling with it the relish of self-approbation.†
Chpt 3.7
- "It's wicked to curse and bear malice."†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil