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  • And hobbits as miserable slaves would please him far more than hobbits happy and free. There is such a thing as malice and revenge.   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • Obie smiled in delicious malice.   (source)
    malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
  • Thorolf yelled, pushing common soldiers aside, roughly but without malice, and shouldering past officers.   (source)
    malice = wanting to make them suffer
  • She alone had known how to outsmart the malicious mountain Ka't'sina who imprisoned the rain clouds in the northwest room of his magical house.   (source)
    malicious = evil
  • The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbors whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know.   (source)
    malice = evil; or wanting to see others suffer
  • He says he never mean to lay de weight uh his hand on me in malice.   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • They looked harmless enough, as if they didn't bear any malice,   (source)
    malice = desire to see others suffer
  • And if I guess rightly there's a spice of malice in his soul towards me too.   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • Three of four faces looked at him with malicious amusement:   (source)
  • To do her justice, she really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense, and she was honestly anxious to preserve her little daughter from the contamination of further intimacy with such a child.   (source)
    malice = evil
  • "I think I can rely on you, citoyen soldiers," laughed Chauvelin, maliciously, "to give this old liar the best and soundest beating he has ever experienced."   (source)
    maliciously = with a desire to see 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.   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • She was loaded to the eyelids with cold malice.   (source)
    malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
  • [With a smile of malice.]   (source)
    malice = evil
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all...   (source)
    malice = wanting to see others suffer
  • He thrust it at her, his eyes glittering with malice.†   (source)
  • It's trespassing and malicious mischief.†   (source)
  • Ender remembered burrowing through the eye when it had been alive and malicious and intelligent.†   (source)
  • I think you've always had malice in your heart!†   (source)
  • He does it without Christina's malice.†   (source)
  • In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice—that is, evidence of actual knowledge on the part of the publisher that a statement is false.†   (source)
  • But she knew that Hasina wasn't malicious.†   (source)
  • The commadant's lips thin and his eyes narrow and an expression of slow and intense malice rises in his face.†   (source)
  • Malicious code?†   (source)
  • One of the jurors did not know the meaning of the word "malice."†   (source)
  • It was clear Celeste's malice had a new target, and after that whole episode with my dress—which I realized I'd forgotten to mention to Maxon—I was glad to see her move on.†   (source)
  • Nothing malicious or mocking lay beneath his words.†   (source)
  • I pull him harder, more out of malice than a desire to help him stretch.†   (source)
  • I have said many cruel and malicious things about the noble lords and ladies of the court.†   (source)
  • It still surprises me to hear such malice in his voice.†   (source)
  • Whoever has a job in hand," said Idigo, looking at Nwakibie's elder son Igwelo with a malicious twinkle in his eye.†   (source)
  • He could feel the malice even without looking.†   (source)
  • It bore her no malice, this animal, it was indifferent to her misery.†   (source)
  • With a smile at her malicious insinuation, John went over to taste the ox-tail soup that had been left untouched on the tray.†   (source)
  • That is just malicious gossip.†   (source)
  • His eyes glitter with malice.†   (source)
  • Platt — slouched back in his chair —said maliciously: "The highlight of Andy's trip was when we stopped for lunch that time at the snack bar."†   (source)
  • She hasn't said this with any particular malice—quite the contrary, her words are very matter-of-fact.†   (source)
  • The darkness seems to come alive on all sides of us, full of darting shadows and malicious, looming shapes, ready to turn into a guard any second, and I picture the silence suddenly punctuated by screams, sighs, horns, bullets.†   (source)
  • A malicious smile takes shape and my body feels as though it has grown bigger, stronger.†   (source)
  • I said this without any malice, and really hadn't intended anything by it.†   (source)
  • Her image changed back to the black-feathered hag, her horrible melted face grinning maliciously.†   (source)
  • Such malice made Meggie feel quite ill.†   (source)
  • But here was a woman who hated me and who, out of sheer malice, had nearly killed me.†   (source)
  • The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile.†   (source)
  • As with so many of his misdeeds, this one was not malicious or premeditated.†   (source)
  • There was a malicious glitter in his eye.†   (source)
  • But the malice of the Germans was not to be taken lightly.†   (source)
  • De Moya regretted these insults to the virgin dignity of our Benefactor and expressed the openness of our government to any and all investigations from member nations who wish to ascertain the falsity of these malicious charges.†   (source)
  • I'd never noticed what an unpleasant, nasal voice she had, and I was surprised by the malice in it.†   (source)
  • Rain can do other things as well, but these are the reasons, it seems to me, that Hardy has chosen a nice, malicious rainstorm for his story.†   (source)
  • Geir's house lord had taken malicious advantage of Vendaai's gambling debts, and some foolish contracts.†   (source)
  • Malice Aforethought†   (source)
  • Not if they're growing out of your...Dorothea paused and smiled at him, not without malice.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba, ever fearful of public ridicule, opted for a solution that would not provide material for malicious tongues, because he knew that his wife's strange behavior was the target of local gossips.†   (source)
  • There was not a shred of malice in the guy.†   (source)
  • Swaney's critics—local progressives and members of the resettlement community for the most part—tended to view him more as a bumbling good ol' boy than as overtly malicious.†   (source)
  • Enough of us have been on the receiving end of malicious gossip to understand how hurtful it is, and yet we do it anyway, without even giving it a second thought...."Hey, did you hear about So-and-So?"†   (source)
  • Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away ...With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, just think,' Roger said, grinning maliciously, 'we'll be in the Apple tomorrow night.†   (source)
  • It was enough for Fermina Daza to see her cousin's expression of radiant malice for the pensive scent of white gardenias to grow again in her heart's memory, and then she tore the red sealing wax with her teeth and drenched the eleven forbidden telegrams in a shower of tears until dawn.†   (source)
  • But that doesn't mean that I'm going to set out to present a malicious portrait of anyone.†   (source)
  • Carvahall looked peaceful under the bald blue sky, yet Roran could feel the sour resentment that clenched its inhabitants with malicious intensity.†   (source)
  • Even in the dim light, Bella could see the malice gleaming in her eyes.†   (source)
  • What I have done was done without malice or hope of another's understanding.†   (source)
  • There is a root somewhere in his brain, a twisted root that sprouts madness and malice.†   (source)
  • The altitude here manifested itself as a malicious force, making me Too feel as though I were afflicted with a raging red-wine hangover, miserable to eat or even read, for the next two days I mostly lay in my tent with my head in my hands, trying to exert myself as little as possible.†   (source)
  • This comment and the fact that it was uttered without a trace of malice had given Annie such a shock that for several weeks she thought of little else than her relationship with Grace or, as she now saw it, her lack of one.†   (source)
  • The gray light, coming in through the monk's-cloth blinds, would, with the malice of the noncommittal, be examining every surface, corner, angle, of the unloved room.†   (source)
  • Right now my gut feeling was telling me that Neferet's anger was all wrong, even if it was in response to Aphrodite's malicious gossip about me.†   (source)
  • Then, on the other side of the room, I hear Alicia murmur some malicious little comment and give a snort of laughter.†   (source)
  • She poured the dirty water off the rice to destroy and silence them, then watched with a malicious joy as they disappeared down the drain.†   (source)
  • If the cat had been poisoned, might not this act have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders?†   (source)
  • He had a sharp, dangerous beak, and the one eye he chose to open stared down maliciously.†   (source)
  • Her face was changing, resuming its usual expression of gleeful malice.†   (source)
  • Cedric is not malicious.†   (source)
  • It was hard to find malice in anything she'd done.†   (source)
  • Gideon Himes was not actively a bad man; he was as without personal malice as malaria.†   (source)
  • The cause of her mother's malice was that she had suffered so.†   (source)
  • The high dead eyelids wrinkled more, the corners of his mouth snaked up as he chuckled, sly, hardly hiding his malice.†   (source)
  • My work shifts were split so haphazardly that it was easy to believe that my superiors had chosen them maliciously.†   (source)
  • That was just malicious talk, I am sure.†   (source)
  • If you've never been on the wrong end of gossip, spread by malicious girls, you'd be surprised how fast they can disseminate reputation-crushing information.†   (source)
  • His eyes gleamed maliciously.†   (source)
  • The prosecution introduced the letter and Mr. Findlay's testimony in an effort to portray Mrs. Smith as so maliciously selfish that she was prepared to trade the lives of her children for a chance to reclaim him.†   (source)
  • Alex grinned maliciously and stepped forward to extend his hand to Rolf, who looked suddenly uneasy.†   (source)
  • There was less bulimia and more fights than I had known as an undergrad, but the same feminine ethos was present—empathetic camaraderie and bawdy humor on good days, and histrionic dramas coupled with meddling, malicious gossip on bad days.†   (source)
  • Harry Rex was a confidant of both Jake and Willie, and though he loved to spread gossip maliciously, he would never rat out inside information like this.†   (source)
  • Jack Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and sentenced to death.†   (source)
  • If you didn't know her, you'd think her zest comes from malice.†   (source)
  • I feel no malice toward this girl.†   (source)
  • Don't distress yourself ....about any malicious attempts to injure me in the estimation of my countrymen.†   (source)
  • But, worse, Captain Charlock—a brave and resourceful rabbit—while leading the pursuit of the fugitives, had been run down on the iron road by a train: a further proof, if any were needed, of the wicked malice of men.†   (source)
  • Your malice has brought Plague on my man and my mother and my hoys!†   (source)
  • I won't spread a malicious rumor just because you say you'll shoot my pinkie toes off if I don't.†   (source)
  • My father spoke to Noah with the malice I thought he reserved only for my mother.†   (source)
  • She kicked the desk with enough force to have Galahad eyeing her maliciously.†   (source)
  • "Long ago," she says, "when man knew not greed, malice, tribe, nor clan, jinn walked the earth."†   (source)
  • "She wants the commander to have a good shot at you," Eugenides pointed out with a touch of malice.†   (source)
  • February is just plain malicious.†   (source)
  • His previous little eye-flick of malice toward Phaedrus has turned to a little eyeflick of fear.†   (source)
  • Heretofore all the campus gossip had seemed merely malicious and disrespectful; now I could see the advantage for Dr. Bledsoe.†   (source)
  • And because of your ignorance, greed, and malicious, arrogant disregard of the law, the captain and crew of your ship are dead.†   (source)
  • But I believed these stories were planted by the government to divide the Congress movement, and I regarded it as malicious mischief.†   (source)
  • Thirteen, she thought, sending a malicious look over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • Each was muscular and graceful, each capable of performing difficult tasks requiring physical coordination; but where David's strength and mobility came from an easy sense of accomplishment, Jason's was filled with an inner malice, no pleasure in the accomplishment, only a hostile purpose.†   (source)
  • Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice.†   (source)
  • I would have never guessed that Mother would, of all places, move near her own mother—a person that she treated with absolute malice.†   (source)
  • At the end of a dark street, the bulbs of an electric sign kept going on and off, as if winking at her maliciously.†   (source)
  • I shall do nothing in malice, for what I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.†   (source)
  • I did not expect you to have a malicious heart.†   (source)
  • That was malicious gossip.†   (source)
  • "Kill it," Paul Berlin said, but without malice.†   (source)
  • One did not dare to announce a birth until the child had been officially examined and approved; and the longer the formal announcement was delayed, the more time the malicious had to invent reasons for the delay.†   (source)
  • Yet the dark elves were malicious, passionless killers beyond the tolerance of even their normally unjudging kin.†   (source)
  • There's more curiosity than malice in the question.†   (source)
  • I imagined that something deeply horrible had happened to her when she was young, some nameless pain, something brutal, that a malicious man had taught her fear and sadness and she had had to leave her life and family because of it.†   (source)
  • Franny saw that he was irritated, and to what extent, but, for the moment, with equal parts of self-disapproval and malice, she felt like speaking her mind.†   (source)
  • They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.†   (source)
  • But let's say, for argument's sake, that maliciousness and lust for power make some people to want control over State issues.†   (source)
  • There was no malice in its grip.†   (source)
  • There was malice in his approach.†   (source)
  • I have known and owned mean, ugly-natured cars which would have done this thing out of pure evil and malice, but not Rocinante.†   (source)
  • At first his colleagues treated him with indulgence; perhaps his decline scared them in the same way as we are scared by cripples, beggars and invalids because we fear we could ourselves become them; but in the end his neglect, his brutal, unreasoning malice, isolated him.†   (source)
  • He walked out of a party one night because somebody used the word "creampuff," it seemed maliciously, in his hearing.†   (source)
  • My fall, while less spectacular than your own, nevertheless involved elements of personal malice on the part of —†   (source)
  • I remembered Iyanda with his overstarched uniform, his broad face, and his smiling, small, malicious eyes.†   (source)
  • MORE (Grins maliciously at ROPER) That's it of coursesaints!†   (source)
  • No one bears you any malice.†   (source)
  • JAMIE Maliciously.†   (source)
  • right, Tom get ye some sleep; and Tom pulled his head back through the ceiling and looked down at him with those empty blue eyes and said, "That's all right, Mr. Ralph, and suddenly Ralph realized that he had no intention of sleeping and would be there alone, not sleeping a wink, just ready in case he was needed; and that Tom had seen his malice, his desire to belittle him, and had belittled him instead, before his mother and his wife and his dying father.†   (source)
  • He looks quietly and maliciously absurd, out walking with old Mr. Marblehall or old Mrs. Marblehall, placing his small booted foot on a little green worm, while they stop and wait on him.†   (source)
  • Yet the man who would later be a bold President—and father of an independent Senator and President—not only remained as counsel, but acquitted his clients of the murder charge, demonstrating to a packed courtroom that no evidence was at hand to show that the firing was malicious and without provocation: Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.†   (source)
  • Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses...Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.†   (source)
  • She began to suspect double meanings where none were intended, to find maliciousness in the glance of a person who felt nothing but affection for her.†   (source)
  • Nor, when he had seen that it was no use, that he did not possess in himself the power to move fundamentally or to hold Judy Jones, did he bear any malice toward her.   (source)
    malice = desire to see someone suffer
  • With resentful eyes and passion-red cheeks she confronted alike Diana's sympathetic gaze and Charlie Sloane's indignant nods and Josie Pye's malicious smiles.   (source)
    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.   (source)
  • "Have it your own way, Potter," said Malfoy, grinning maliciously.†   (source)
  • The gesture was not missed by Voldemort, whose eyes widened maliciously.†   (source)
  • "I think you were better off with the old one," said Snape, the malice in his voice unmistakable.†   (source)
  • Jace...She saw the bright malice in his eyes and trailed off.†   (source)
  • It indicted Williams for first-degree murder—premeditated and with malice aforethought.†   (source)
  • Malfoy's eyes were narrowed maliciously.†   (source)
  • Only he's unwilling to sell it, as, as," he said, shushing me maliciously, "as I would be too.†   (source)
  • The impulse, the flash of malice, the infantile destructiveness he could understand.†   (source)
  • "Come and get it!" she giggled maliciously.†   (source)
  • Its malice echoes into all worlds," the queen went on.†   (source)
  • But I don't do it unless I absolutely need to, and I've never done it with malice.†   (source)
  • "Of course not," said Lieutenant Issaaia, malice concealed in the ambiguity of her words.†   (source)
  • I feel none of the rage and malice that the other beasts radiated, no desire for blood and death.†   (source)
  • But please know that if I have to leave you, I leave you with love, rather than malice.†   (source)
  • His eyes glittered with amusement and malice.†   (source)
  • For jokes you need a certain edge, a little malice.†   (source)
  • "Looked bad when he left," Wilem said with a quiet malice.†   (source)
  • One looked right at me, and I sensed an unmistakable aura of malice.†   (source)
  • His pale, pointed face was alight with malice.†   (source)
  • She hadn't intended to mislead, she hadn't acted out of malice.†   (source)
  • I look at him without malice, without hatred, and without fear.†   (source)
  • He looked at her with glittering malice.†   (source)
  • The Russian's eyes glittered with malice.†   (source)
  • "Do you feel that?" she asked Chaol, who slowly, maliciously grinned.†   (source)
  • Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously.†   (source)
  • Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice.†   (source)
  • The hollow, mad eyes of the monster were full of malice.†   (source)
  • Leo's eyes were hazel, bright with wine and malice.†   (source)
  • Lindsey bolted upright, staring at Katrina with a gathering malice.†   (source)
  • "A more useful skill than any of yours, sweet brother," purred Cersei, in a voice sweet with malice.†   (source)
  • Not really maliciously, and maybe he even notes a hint of real flirtation in there somewhere.†   (source)
  • He was a gentleman doing his job and I bore him no malice.†   (source)
  • "Wish I were," said Anna, her pretty blue eyes glittering with malice.†   (source)
  • It was not malice in Philip's voice, but worse: it was a genuine, indignant astonishment.†   (source)
  • The polecat hissed, its beady red eyes full of malice.†   (source)
  • There was no suspicion or malice in the ogre's tone, but Max almost wished there was.†   (source)
  • I could not understand why nearly everything that spewed from her mouth was filled with malice.†   (source)
  • I labored on it, with, I now see, considerable malice.†   (source)
  • He personally witnessed the northern crowd's malice toward the South at Lincoln's speech last night.†   (source)
  • The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.†   (source)
  • The Tickler hung on the wall as well, the black holes that were his eyes swimming with malice.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, no, you're not,' gloated Major Sanderson maliciously.†   (source)
  • I am failure and malice, greed and hatred.†   (source)
  • Elva answered in a soft tone, with no trace of malice.†   (source)
  • "Couldn't wake him up," said Avens, with a touch of malice.†   (source)
  • "I could," she tells me straight, but without any malice in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Then he understood and approached the table, smiling maliciously.†   (source)
  • He kept staring at them, though without malice.†   (source)
  • Then, more quietly, but with seething malice, "Be silent while you can.†   (source)
  • And they maliciously attack its supporters.†   (source)
  • We have no real indication that the virus will be used maliciously.†   (source)
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