6 uses
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Definition
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil
- "Perhaps the Beauforts don't know her," Janey suggested, with her artless malice.Chapter 5 (69% in)
- Mrs. Manson Mingott screwed up her little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through malicious lids.Chapter 17 (14% in)
- He wanted to thank her for having been to see his mother, but under the ancestress's malicious eye he felt himself tongue-tied and constrained.Chapter 17 (28% in)
- She looked at him with a flash of her old malice.Chapter 23 (29% in)
- "Ah, but not as handsome as Ellen!" she jerked out, twinkling at him maliciously; and before he could answer she added: "Was she so awfully handsome the day you drove her up from the ferry?"Chapter 30 (65% in)
- Archer looked at him, and thought he saw in his gay young eyes a gleam of his great-grandmother Mingott's malice.Chapter 34 (62% in)
There are no more uses of "malicious" in The Age of Innocence.
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