Sample sentences for MALICIOUS

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Definition

wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil

malicious = evil; or made with the intent to make others suffer

maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer

took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince
I have already begged you so to conduct yourself in society so that even malicious tongues can find nothing to say against you.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
With malice toward none, with charity for all...
Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

malice = wanting to see others suffer

I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. [Jeanine] ... is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or...
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

malice = wanting to see others suffer

Thorolf yelled, pushing common soldiers aside, roughly but without malice, and shouldering past officers.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

malice = wanting to make them suffer

They looked harmless enough, as if they didn't bear any malice,
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

malice = desire to see others suffer

His eyes glittered. Such malice was in them that men stepped back from him.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers

malice = desire to make others suffer

And Rogojin burst out laughing, this time with unconcealed malice, as though he were glad that he had been able to find an opportunity for giving vent to it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

malice = wanting to see others suffer

I nodded and smiled back, then I realized there was something malicious in her smile.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

malicious = wanting to see others suffer

I do not forget either my father and his kind hanging over us, bright and sharp as swords, aimed at our tearing flesh. If they do not fall on us in spite and malice, then they will fall by accident or whim.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

malice = desire to see others suffer

"All things happen for a purpose," she said, any sign of malice now gone from her voice.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

malice = wanting to see others suffer

they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels

malicious = wanting to see others suffer

And if I guess rightly there's a spice of malice in his soul towards me too.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

malice = wanting to see others suffer

Three of four faces looked at him with malicious amusement:
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory

malicious = wanting to see others suffer

Just recall to your mind what these malicious creatures wrote in the papers about papa, and how horribly they slandered him.
Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House

malicious = wanting to see others suffer

A circlet of gold wreathed his head, and even in death his eyes were alive with malice.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

She was loaded to the eyelids with cold malice.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

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