Both Uses of
malicious
in
Candide
- And he would choose a more complicated doctrine than Dr. Pangloss's optimism, would study it more closely, feel his destructive way about it with a more learned and caressing malice.†
Chpt Intr. *
- This Eighteenth Century snuff-taking and malicious, is like Voltaire, who nevertheless must know, if he happens to think of it, that not yet in the Twentieth Century, not for all its speed mania, has any one come near to equalling the speed of a prose tale by Voltaire.†
Chpt Intr.
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil