All 10 Uses of
malicious
in
Catch-22
- His eyes gleamed maliciously.†
Chpt 4 *
- He walked through life selfconsciously with downcast eyes and burning cheeks, the object of contempt, envy, suspicion, resentment and malicious innuendo everywhere he went.†
Chpt 9
- Well, I'll be danmed!' ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen crowed with malicious glee.†
Chpt 12
- …procession into the open city of Rome, where he was wounded in the eye by a flower fired at him from close range by a seedy, cackling, intoxicated old man, who, like Satan himself, had then bounded up on Major — de Coverley's car with malicious glee, seized him roughly and contemptuously by his venerable white head and kissed him mockingly on each cheek with a mouth reeking with sour fumes of wine, cheese and garlic, before dropping back into the joyous celebrating throngs with…†
Chpt 13
- They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.†
Chpt 17
- 'For how long?' mocked the profane old man with a gleam of malicious elation.†
Chpt 23
- He laughed quietly in malicious defiance.†
Chpt 25
- 'Oh, no, you're not,' gloated Major Sanderson maliciously.†
Chpt 27
- He could picture the fiery and malicious exhilaration with which they had made their wreckage, and their sanctimonious, ruthless sense of right and dedication.†
Chpt 39
- Yossarian lunged for his tormentor's throat with one hand, but the man glided out of reach effortlessly and vanished into the corridor with a malicious laugh.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil