All 3 Uses of
malicious
in
The House of Mirth
- At such moments of diminished interest it was usual for Mrs. Dorset to keep her room till the afternoon; but on this occasion she drifted in when luncheon was half over, hollowed-eyed and drooping, but with an edge of malice under her indifference.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her.†
Chpt 1.11
- But other memories importuned her also; the recollection of similar situations, as skillfully led up to, but through some malice of fortune, or her own unsteadiness of purpose, always failing of the intended result.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil