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Definition
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil- I am not interested in hearing malicious gossip.
malicious = evil; or made with the intent to make others suffer
- Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.Sidney Madwed
- 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
- 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
- Thorolf yelled, pushing common soldiers aside, roughly but without malice, and shouldering past officers.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
- They looked harmless enough, as if they didn't bear any malice,Albert Camus -- The Stranger
- His eyes glittered. Such malice was in them that men stepped back from him.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
- 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
- "All things happen for a purpose," she said, any sign of malice now gone from her voice.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
- More out of malice than integrity,William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
- they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- And if I guess rightly there's a spice of malice in his soul towards me too.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- Three of four faces looked at him with malicious amusement:Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
- 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
- A circlet of gold wreathed his head, and even in death his eyes were alive with malice.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- She was loaded to the eyelids with cold malice.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- and Loila-Wossiky knew that there was malice and ridicule in the voices that said it and the voices that laughed.Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
- Malfoy elbowed past Hermione to block Harry's way up the stone steps to the castle, his face gleeful and his pale eyes glinting maliciously.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer
malice = wanting to see others suffer
malice = wanting to see others suffer
malice = wanting to make them suffer
malice = desire to see others suffer
malice = desire to make others suffer
malice = wanting to see others suffer
malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
malice = wanting to see others suffer
malicious = wanting to see others suffer
malice = wanting to see others suffer
malicious = wanting to see others suffer
malicious = wanting to see others suffer
malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
malice = desire to see others suffer
maliciously = in a threatening way